Honda Odyssey Power Steering Fluid Flush

hi YouTube today I'm going to be doing a video tutorial on how you can do your own power steering fluid flush on your 3rd generation honda odyssey years 2005 to 2010 now the procedure that i'm going to show you in this video is going to be essentially the same for all models of conda's that use hydraulic power steering fluid so let's begin so before we begin there's a few basic items that we're going to need to have on hand before we can proceed with the fluid flush number one is to have at least four bottles of genuine Honda power steering fluid preferably a new power steering fluid reservoir and make sure that you have the revised version part number five three seven zero one shj a zero two and how you know it's a revised part is actually it has light dot in here now people are wondering why I'd want to go ahead and replace the food reservoir and the reason is is that inside at the bottom of this reservoir is actually a very fine silk screen filter that actually removes the larger contaminants over the system and prevents them from recirculating inside the power steering system as far as tools are concerned the other items that we're going to need is a large diameter rubber hose such as one like this that's at least three-quarters to an inch wide a pair of pliers needle nosed an angle pliers some little rubber plugs so we can cap one end of the fluid reservoir some paper towels as well as a container to contain all the old oil prior to dismantling the power steering system and draining of any fluid make sure that your vehicle is parked on a flat level ground with the front wheels pointed straight ahead using the new fluid reservoir as a reference point and to give you a better view point of how things are supposed to come apart the bottom hose here is actually what is feeding the power steering pump on the low-pressure side before the pump pressurizes it and press pushes the fluid through the power steering rack the upper hose here as you notice is a smaller diameter connecting point that's about halfway up the fluid reservoir and this is actually the fluid return line so how we're going to drain the system is that we're actually going to tip the old reservoir our side ways as best as we can by removing it from the bracket and tipping it such at the fluid level is below this upper oil port and then basically what's going to happen is we're going to take that rubber hose from that we just disconnected here and feed it into our large rubber hose that will drain into our oil container now the whole idea is that when we start the engine it's going to suck all the fluid down out through into the power steering pump through the rack and instead of returning back this way it's going to start dumping it into our oil container so I'm going to go ahead and remove the power steering reservoir from the bracket and this can simply be accomplished by lifting up on the reservoir and pulling straight up now as you can see here that there's some fluid inside this reservoir and basically what I'm going to do is I'm just going to tip this down at an angle and using my angled pliers I'm just going to go ahead and pinch the clamps on the hose to loosen it and slide it down the hose so before we begin I'm plugging the hose off of the fluid reservoir we actually want to grab a whole bunch of paper towel or even squads of old newspaper and kind of place them underneath the food reservoir catching spills and drips that will for sure occur if you disconnect the hose the other thing that we also want to get ready is our little rubber plug that I showed in our tool list earlier where when I disconnect this all return hose that I can use this little rubber cap and then chap the old reservoir to prevent the fluid level from dropping and then dumping all the oil out onto your engine bay so let's go ahead and pull that hose off so the other tip is to angle your power steering reservoir down as low as you can so if the oil is not actually where the reservoir port is and so you don't get any spills and then I'm going to go ahead and place the rubber cap on the fluid reservoir and now I can go ahead and raise it and not fear of losing in the oil you can't see my paper towels but I've literally just filled one drop into the engine bay then what we're going to do is we're going to take our parse earring return hose and then feed it into our drainage hose and then in my particular case I have a little hose clamp on the end of it which I'm just got to tighten gently with a screwdriver tighten my hose clamp so this is what my drainage setup looks like so I've got my large drainage hose hooked up to the power-steering return hose that I've disconnected from here and as you can see the fluid reservoir level is higher than this part but because I was able to tip the reservoir down like that you can see that there's no oil at the port and therefore you don't get any spillage and of course the bottom hose you have this actually feeding the power-steering pump inside of here remains connected so what we can do now is we can actually remove the paper towels temporarily so that they don't get caught inside the fan belts might be hook this back on the bracket and we're going to start the van up so that it pumps out all the old fluid so I got to go inside the vehicle start the car but once I start it you'll see that it only takes maybe about 3 to 4 seconds of actual engine run time before the fluid levels is completely diminished and then you'll begin to hear the power steering pump cavitate and making weird noises at that point you need to immediately shut the engine off not to do the pump because of lack of oil so as you can see just running my engine for maybe about five seconds and I even gave it a tiny bit of a rep just to get the oil out I actually didn't hear my power steering pump cavitate but you can see there's absolutely no fluid left inside this steer power steering reservoir and then if you can see in the bottom you can sort of see that silkscreen filter in the bottom of the pump that manually focus here all the crud and crap that's actually jammed inside this stuff fluid reservoir assembly now I mentioned earlier in my video that you need to get a revised power steering pump through reservoir and you notice here that there's no white dot on this existing reservoir because this is the very first version of it and actually Honda had numerous complaints of lack of power steering boost at low speeds and some of the issues were actually attributed to the old housing design where that silkscreen filter inside the bottom there where you see all that sludge was too fun and basically blocking the flow of power steering fluid to the rack-and-pinion unit so the new one of course has a new silkscreen filter that's not as fine and of course will definitely feel better than a fine filter that's jammed up with all the crud inside now since the fluid reservoir has no oil inside of it now it's actually a good time to go ahead and actually remove it from the vehicle and install the new one since we're going to be installing new fluid into the into the system there's no fear of introducing any type of contaminants into the power steering rack and pinion unit now when you remove the hose it's probably a good practice just to use something to just jam it on the end of this hose just so you don't get any leaks so far I haven't spilled a single drop on the actual chassis z' of a car install your new reservoir now when you remove the paper towel always double check to make sure that there's no paper towel or remnants of a paper towel inside the hose otherwise you just get pumped out right into the car steering system now for those that are wondering how do you place the hose back on properly on the reservoir easiest way to do it don't clamp it down install it and because there's oil residue in it it's lubricated so it'll slide around on the end very easily and just place it back in the bracket and then give the hose a wiggle so that it kind of falls back into its natural resting place remove the reservoir back go to the bracket and then reattach your clamp in the same spot that we're left on the hose make sure that your home is fully seated onto the end of the actual nipple of the reservoir you can now go ahead and take our rubber cap that we used earlier on the old reservoir to cap this one so that we don't inadvertently dump parcel fluid all over the engine bay go ahead and fill the fluid reservoir with your new power steering fluid now if you're worried about spilling because of the awkward position you can go ahead because you've capped off the upper portion of the reservoir take it out of the bracket and then simply pour the fluid in well now for this initial fill my first bottle has already basically brought the food level almost to the top of the reservoir as you can see right here the old fluid as you may remember was quite dark and you could actually see it through this translucent housing carefully just loosely place the food reservoir back into place go ahead and clean your food reservoir cap with a paper towel making sure that there's no dirt or paper towel bits lodged inside the fins and place it on top of the reservoir to prevent any splash back now one thing to consider here that I failed to mention earlier in the video is that I actually recommend that if you're going to go ahead and buy a new food reservoir that you go ahead and buy the corresponding fluid cap as well they're not sold as a match set but I really think that they should be because this cap on the old reservoir fit very tightly in the opening of the reservoir but on this new reservoir with the old cap look how loose this fits there's literally nothing holding this cap in place now the caps probably about five to six dollars at your local Honda dealership so when you're ordering the new reservoir which is really a new filter as well make sure that you go ahead and order a new fluid cap as well prior to starting the engine confirm that the fluid reservoir is in fact full which on this one it's up at this level now what I'm going to do here is that I'm going to start my Odyssey and right when I started I'm going to crank the steering wheel all the way to the left to flush out these circuits in the rack and pinion steering on the one side or sorry in the one direction you need to do this very rapidly because there's not much fluid in that reservoir and you don't want to damage a power steering pump from running it dry once it hits the end shut it off with the engine off turn the steering wheel back to the central position now this is not going to hurt the rack and pinion unit because the engine is not running right now taking your second bottle of power steering fluid go ahead and fill your reservoir again so after this bottle you should have two bottles remaining at the very minimum and as I had mentioned earlier in the video you want to start with a minimum of four bottles preferably five for added insurance so again now that we've poured one bottle in you can see that the fluid reservoir is filled to the top loosely place it back to the bracket and replace the fluid cap start your engine and turn the student wheel all the way to the right until it hits the end and then immediately shut the engine off to the ignition back to run and then recenter your steering wheel again again this doesn't damage the rack-and-pinion or the power steering pump because the engine is off as denoted by the zero rpm on the tachometer shut the ignition off take your third bottle of power steering fluid and only half fill the fluid reservoir now the reason why we want 1/2 know the food reservoir is that we're going to start the engine one last time to flush out that last little bit of potentially dirty fluid inside the rack and pinion and power steering and power steering coolers circuits and then we're going to take our fourth bottle and the half of our third bottle here to top off the power food the power steering fluid go ahead and replace the fluid somewhere and cap start the engine and only run it for maybe two to three seconds at most now at this stage after cycling your ignition there briefly you can pick up your fluid reservoir just double check to make sure that there's no fluid inside as you can see it's completely empty and this basically concludes the draining and purging portion of the procedure next is to make sure that we are able to disconnect this drainage hose without pouring oil all over our engine bay so I'm going to try to just sort of hum manipulate this holes such that it schools as low as it can to get rid of the remaining fluid and then we're going to go ahead and loosen our hose clamp and then reattach it back to indoor fluid reservoir now I guess at this point we can also go ahead and remove this rubber sealing cap since there's no fluid inside to leak out and we're going to need to reattach our hose to now one of the tips I have here is that you can take a bunch of paper towels and just sort of wrap her around where you're going to be disconnecting your hose clamp when you're pulling this apart hold the end of the drainage holes up immediately so that fluid doesn't go everywhere ever so carefully wipe the ends of this hose with your paper towel that you used in hand and then carefully maneuver it over back to the power steering fluid reservoir and then reattach it onto the nipple now much like how we did it with the lower hose we're just going to loosely install it back in the bracket and then just give the hose a good wiggle to get it to go back into a sort of natural resting position so that there's no torsional strains on this holes for the nipple when we put the clamp back on go ahead and just give your hoses good wipe remove any oil residue on the outside of the hose and then using your pair of pliers pinch the clamp and reattach the clamp to the appropriate location go ahead and wipe up in spots a nice flow fluid on double check there was no leaks earlier on the bottom holes which there's none fill the food reservoir to the very top just loosely attached back under the bracket replace the cap now that all the power-steering hoses and clamps are properly reattach to the fluid reservoir and the reservoir is full of new power steering fluid go ahead and start the engine and then begin to turn the steering wheel all the way to the left and then all the way to the right and then back to the center so the front wheels are pointing straight shut off the engine now you'll notice after we did our sort of full left and then full right basically what we call walk to walk turn and then Center the steering wheel facts such that the front wheels are pointing straight again you'll notice that our full fluid reservoir is now actually below the lower level mark as denoted by this lower line this is why it was really important to only use half a bottle on that third round when we filled this so that you can use that remaining half bottle and then top off the fluid level such that you're between these two lines now the power steering system on this van is actually cold so it's actually okay to bring the fluid level up to this knob or slightly above it when it's cold because as it heats up it will expand and either touch the top or exceed it slightly the key thing here is we need to make sure that this oil return port area is always covered in oil this is why that Lord fill mark is above that but to make sure that we don't overfill the system such that when it heats up and expands that it doesn't begin to spill and dump out everywhere over the threads of our well go ahead and top off all of our fluids now just fill it such that it's between the lower and upper lines as I'm sure there's still air in the system go ahead and hook it back on your bracket sorry actually overfilled it just slightly but I think it'll be okay and replace the fluid cap go ahead and start the car again turn the steer wheel full left all the way to the end and hold turn it all the way to the right and hold and then repeat all the way to the left all the way to the right one last time for left full right and then back to Center I'll shut the engine off now as you can see here after topping off our fluid level and I parked on a level ground which is really important by the way that my fluids on a cold steering system this car hasn't been driven for a few hours that the fluid is between the lower mark and the upper mark which is fine because as the system heats up it will go over this full level it's what they call the upper level and but it'll be okay because there's still at least this much expansion room inside this reservoir before this explodes and that's not likely going to happen so there you have it we basically use four bottles of genuine Honda power steering fluid a new food reservoir strongly advised that when you do that you get a new cap you get your rubber hose with a large container and by the way you see how clear the new food is this is what the old oil looks like from the power steering system so that's pretty bad and so we use for bottles basically to drain flush and refill our Honda Odyssey now I also didn't mention that during my video the importance of why we need to do power steering flushes preferably every 50,000 kilometers it's cheap insurance to make sure that the seals and hoses are kept in the highest quality and suchlike they don't deteriorate and to also remove any dirt and contaminants that may have made their way into the system through this vented cap and these ribs and those notches and also as a final step make sure that we double check the joints to make sure that there's no fluid spewing out anywhere which in this case there is none make sure that your cap is firmly placed back onto the reservoir and then at the same time make sure that the reservoir is fully locked out onto the bracket as denoted by this metal tab with a notch cut into it that sits over the wing on the fluid reservoir so the beginning of the video I actually didn't go through the cost breakdown of what it would cost a typical car owner to perform this fluid flush each bottle of power steering fluid is about seven to nine dollars local honda dealership and the fluid reservoir is about 15 to 18 dollars prices do vary slightly from dealership to dealership but they'll all fall within this range the spent about $50 canadian on it and about thirty minutes of my time with a pair of pliers and the old rubber hose and a flathead screwdriver I hope you found this video useful and informative rate comment and subscribe

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Length: 22min 31sec (1351 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 20 2014