Thread: Power steering fluid replacement

Follow. Probably a great idea for mine at 6 years and 240k km. I'll take a gander in the manual when at home if no one responds.

Fairy easy job, but can get a bit messy. Take the weight of the front tyres to enable easier/faster movementYou'll need to remove the return line at the reservoir and have something handy to allow it to drain. Then plug the return line on the reservoir and get a bit of extra hose and a joiner and run the return line to a bottle/container to catch the waste. Its handy to have an assistant at this point. Fill the reservoir with new fluid and start the engine turning the steering wheel lock to lock. Either work quickly to keep fluid in the reservoir or shut down the engine and refill before it runs dry. You'll essentially flush most of the old fluid out this way

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Follow. Probably a great idea for mine at 6 years and 240k km. I'll take a gander in the manual when at home if no one responds.

Anything in the workshop manual DJ? I need to do mine, I haven't looked but surely there must be a lower drain plug on the PS rack to make the drain/refill process a bit easier than disconnecting hoses and pipes etc.


Then again, it is Land Rover....

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Anything in the workshop manual DJ? I need to do mine, I haven't looked but surely there must be a lower drain plug on the PS rack to make the drain/refill process a bit easier than disconnecting hoses and pipes etc.


Then again, it is Land Rover....

Shane’s got it sorted above. Drain res, fresh fluid, pump old fluid through until new.

Believe also can extract and replace oil several times in reservoir using syringe with a start up in between to cycle fluid. PS Oil is quite cheap. Will get an acceptable flush doing this a la gearbox.

Well, changed the PS fluid last weekend, used my oil suction pump to drain the reservoir, then filled with new fluid, ran the engine to circulate. Did this twice to flush, moving steering lock to lock each time. Then removed the reservoir and connected the suction hose to the oil return line to suction out the rest of the fluid from the system. Started and ran the engine for 30 sec to flush out the pump. Cleaned out the reservoir of all the gunk before reinstalling and filling with penrite PAS semi synthetic. Ran the engine to circulate and recheck fluid level, topped up to max line. Road test and all sweet. The entire process took about 1hour, including setting up the car on axle stands to get the front wheels off the ground. The system takes about 1200ml of PS fluid, I used a bit more because of the flush cycles. 2l of PAS was about $75 from SCA.

No need to break into any of the lines at the rack so no chance of future leaks.

Pretty happy with the result. Another job ticked off the list

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Well, changed the PS fluid last weekend, used my oil suction pump to drain the reservoir, then filled with new fluid, ran the engine to circulate. Did this twice to flush, moving steering lock to lock each time. Then removed the reservoir and connected the suction hose to the oil return line to suction out the rest of the fluid from the system. Started and ran the engine for 30 sec to flush out the pump. Cleaned out the reservoir of all the gunk before reinstalling and filling with penrite PAS semi synthetic. Ran the engine to circulate and recheck fluid level, topped up to max line. Road test and all sweet. The entire process took about 1hour, including setting up the car on axle stands to get the front wheels off the ground. The system takes about 1200ml of PS fluid, I used a bit more because of the flush cycles. 2l of PAS was about $75 from SCA.

No need to break into any of the lines at the rack so no chance of future leaks.

Pretty happy with the result. Another job ticked off the list

My main job today was oil and filter change and replace the PS fluid. Coolant on another day.

Well, I’ve just snapped the (very brittle) return line spigot off trying to remove the hose careful as I tried.

What now? Is the bottle available separately I hope. Anyone in Perth got one spare?

Car is immobile now so any tricks to fix spigot I’m all ears.

Bugger bugger bugger. I’m blaming EricSDV6SE for this one.

Yes reservoir is available separately, check out Rovacraft in Perth or order from Rimmers UK or any of the other LR spares suppliers.

Sorry to hear that you broke the outlet off the resevoir