[dm986]

I had my power steering pump replaced about 4 years ago at a regular service place. I remember them saying they used regular Power Steering Fluid in it. Just yesterday i replaced the high pressure hose. I put in regular power steering fluid. When looking up how to purge the air from it, everywhere I read say to use ATF+4. Does it matter or should I just empty it and flush and refill with ATF fluid? If I should redo it, because i didn't lookup how to do it the first time, which hose do I have to take off to drain it? Is it the one right next to the pressure hose attatched to the pinnion? And I didn't find this also, how do you get the air out of the line?

I couldn't get to the pressure hose attatched to the pump, so I took the whole pump out, in doing so I cracked the pulley off, I replaced that and the belt for the hell of it. When I took off the pump, as I said I didn't drain it, the fluid spilled all over the bottom pulley. And after I replaced the pulley belt and put back the pump, I filled it back up and spilled some over the new pulley and belt. How should I clean that off. Would it be safe to just spray it with a hose, or a brake or carb cleaner or degreaser?

When leaning over the engine to get off the bottom part of the pressure hose, I broke off the thermostat housing. I looked at where it was and noticed there seemed to be some sludge or corrosion type stuff around the edges of where it was. The little bit of coolant that you can see in it looks pretty clean though. What would that mean? Is the coolant in that car supposed to be the green stuff? If I got it flushed would the Orange stuff work in there or is the green stuff recomended?

Thanks