Warning!!! Fix those leaky steering hoses/boxes

[Leon R]

I'd never run an unloaded engine above 2K ... but that's just me.

So, what you are saying is that unloaded engine at 4k prm is seeing MORE stress than loaded engine at 4k?

Bleeding is the process of opening a closed system to allow air to escape.

It escapes, all right... into the top of the PS fluid reservoir!

Burping could be another way to describe it.