yea, but your lines have fluid in them and so does the rack, you still need to do as i described, unless you have a new rack and new linesThanks. It's a totally new rebuild, so no fluids in the car at all. The "5" was a typo But there was no mention of 202 or 11s on any bottle. Figured since the one I bought said it was especially for VW, it should work.
Since no fluids are in the car, can I just pour it in the little green bottle?
If it's a dry system the most I would care to do is to pre-fill the pump before attaching the lines. If you want to turn the pump pulley by hand go for it but I don't think it really makes that big of a difference.steve, im sure you want to prime the pump some, starting the motor with out will almost certainly run the pump while dry. with belt off you want to turn pump pulley over by hand a few times, then do that. while make sure you check level, if it goes down too far, problems.
im not sure that statement is true. whats true about that is to get pressure, and flow. for one thats not the point of this. for another, you have system drained, or dry, by filling the reservoir your assuming fluid will fill the rack. the bottom of the reservoir has 2 hoses, one is the return from the rack, i cannt say from just filling bottle that a whole lot of fluid gets to the rack, it may. the other hose will go to the pump. any fluid will stop there, at the pump. by turning pulley we get fluid thru the pump, it will move, and the pump is designed, like pumps are, if fluid is there it will move(some, thru it). now like some have smartly suggested, by turning steering(stop to stop a good few times), before starting up, you can purge a good amount of air, now check level, top off. on start up (check level 1st)again turn wheel, again a good few times from stop to stop, and etc. <that means check fluid level, your now ready to warm her up. again, after check level again. you should be ok.It would certainly not hurt anything if you did turn the pulley by hand but I'm not sure that you will do very much that way, it kind of takes a reasonable RPM to move the fluid.