Stevo F Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Does anyone know how many ounces of power steering fluid our cars hold? I'm flushing my system, and I just drained off approximately 16 ounces each time then ran the car and steered the wheels end to end a few times. I did this 3 times so I have about 48 ounces of a mixture of the old and new fluid (both are red so it's hard to tell how much is old and how much is new). I'm just curious about what % of the whole system capacity was the 16 ounces I drained out each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zues Marine Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 per owner's manual: 0.7 US qt (0 .7 liter, 0.6 Imp qt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo F Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 I guess I must have flushed it out pretty well as I got about twice that much out of the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooln30 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I hope you didn't use power steering fluid because it uses ATM fluid or Dex 3 to be more specific. Using PSF will damage the seals. This if from years in the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyposeur Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Thanks spooln. I've been using power steering fluid to top off my leak. Does it do any other damage besides the seals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooln30 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Monkey, it can damage almost anything in the system from the seals and premature pump and rack failures. The lines won't be effected at all. I forgot to mentioned these. LOL I have had cars at the shop that came in with PS issues and ones that wouldn't normally have pumps or racks fail and when I drained the system I could easily tell ATM fluid wasn't used. Especially with Honda's, they take a special fluid and I only recommend using Honda's fluid. They have great reliable PS systems and for them to fail of have leaks it's usually from running normal power steering fluid. The two fluids are different and for one PS fluid is thicker so in colder weather it strains the pump and rack to push the fluid through. The worst thing to use is that stop leak, it way too thick for systems and it will more than likely cause your components to fail quicker. Almost every Japanese and European vehicles use a ATM or special fluids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo F Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 I used a Dexron 3 compatible fluid. Of our 5 cars, it looks like the Subaru, the 2 Toyotas's and my old Nissan truck all use Dexron . It's only the Honda Accord that has to use Honda geniune power steering (and Honda transmission fluid). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooln30 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Correct stevo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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