I will detail how I changed / flush my power steering fluid. Hope to share with you guys and hope to improve it or learn something new.

First I lowered the air suspension to the lowest point and locked it and it showed its locked on that control. And I also have the hood lifted all the way up. With these 2 steps, I was hoping that the front wheels would not drop down when I jacked up the front. However, the front wheels still dropped down and it shows on the little display "Suspension is in extended mode"

I used a 3 tons floor jack to jack up the front so I can turn the wheels while I'm sucking the power steering fluid out. There is a youtube from RSW draining the power steering fluid from low pressure line. However, I think its too much work and its oily messy when you pull the low pressure line out. The fluid will spill every where.

So I made my own little device photo below and it may help you in the future. So let me explain how it works, I drilled 2 holes on the cap of glass jar. 1 hole will be attached to home vacuum hose and the other hole will be attached to a 5/16" OD hose. Basically I'm trying to create a vacuum space inside that glass jar and the 5/16 goes into the power steering fluid reservoir to suck up all the old fluid. I got 61k miles in my LR3 and the PS fluid looks like dark green / gray. I guess its time to change it. When I almost emptied the reservoir, I turned on the car and kept turning the wheels more fluids come up to reservoir. Actually that did not help too much. The wheels get stiff when the fluid almost out. I turned the car off then. I knew there are more fluid in the system so I knew I was gonna suck more fluid out from either hose at the bottom of the reservoir. I did not know which is inlet or outlet. I first pulled out the bigger hose on the left, and then I put my 5/16 tube in the bigger tube and turned on the vacuum, nothing came out. So I knew the smaller hose must be the inlet and I had to suck more fluid from there. The smaller inlet hose was harder to pull out though. The lucky thing was that the 5/16 OD tube fits perfectly into the inlet hose, that makes the vacuum goes a lot better. I turned on the vacuum and yea another 1/4 jar of fluid came out from there. I left the vacuum on for too long maybe, the vacuum just turned itself off after like only after 5min or so. And then it could not be turned on again. You may say wtf 5min is too long? I guess the vacuum was too much, the pump inside got no where to go so it shut itself off. I thought I fuked it up or something. I checked but no oil went in the vacuum but it did kinda over heat. After like half an hour, I plugged it in and it was able to turn on again. i don't know what happened but its Shark vacuum. so yea this method, you won't have the fluid spills and I think the vacuum pull out the fluid very hard since the 5/16 OD tube fits perfectly into the inlet hose.

Power steering I got was from Advance auto - 2 bottles of Lucas Oil Products Power Steering Fluid w/Conditioners (16 oz.)
I poured in about 1.5, 1.6 bottles into the reservoir. I added a lil bit of seafoam in it too.

I also added some seafoam in it about a week ago before I changed today too. I thought it can go into crankcase, it can go into power steering fluid too to clean it up a lil.

So with this little device, I'm hoping to suck the diff oil and transfer case oil out too, and maybe transmission fluid. I will make another thread about these.

 

Hi every1
I just took a lil sample of the new power steering fluid and see what color it is. Its very light green. The new Lucas fluid I poured in was light yellow but now it turned light green. The original fluid there was dark green just like the youtube rsw video. If mine turned light green, it means a lil bit of old fluid was still there. My suction tube device was not able to suck it completely out. Oh well....and this is the update anyways!

 

Please, no one do this procedure. Running the steering system dry is not a good idea. Do the change the proper way.

 

Was thinking the same thing, seems kind of like a hack job. The results speak for themselves. I just saw Storey's video before reading this, I will probably do that, haha.