i put in a ps pump and its foaming in the res. i filled the res. before hand anything else i should do to get it working prop.


Modified by fastlude69 at 6:44 PM 10/24/2003

 

did you use honda power steering fluid or fluid approved for use in honda's? if not it will screw up your ps system and it wont work.

 

yea

 

You have air trapped in the system, when you poor in the PS fluid after any service to the PS system you have to turn the wheel side to side to purge the bubbles.

 

i did but i turned the car on first is that a probelm i thought thats how you do it?

 

How old is the car? It sounds like there's a seal (usually the pulley seal) has gone bad, which can happen regardless of what fluid you use.

Usually that pulley seal will go bad, and since it's right next to the gears, it really sucks in air a foams it up. It happened to me. You can buy all the seals from honda and rebuild it yourself, it's really not very hard.

 

thats ghey i just brought this one off a guy on htech to replace my old one that leaks

 

the foam might just be the air leaving the system, you just have to wait for it to all get out, crank the wheel back and forth and keep adding fluid untill all the air escapes