Easist way to remove most coolant
12-04-2012, 06:48 PM
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Easist way to remove most coolant
Hi , I plan to change out my coolant and just want to find the easist way to do that.
I plan to drain from the coolant drain plug on the engine, then disconnect the lower coolant hoses from both radiators.Would this work? Total capacity should be about 6 gals and I hope to get at least 4 gals out with this method.
Will do water pump and low temp t-stat the same time.
TIA
I plan to drain from the coolant drain plug on the engine, then disconnect the lower coolant hoses from both radiators.Would this work? Total capacity should be about 6 gals and I hope to get at least 4 gals out with this method.
Will do water pump and low temp t-stat the same time.
TIA
12-04-2012, 07:14 PM
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You will need one of those UVIEW Air Lift tools for the refill process, and applying a vaccuum a couple of time draws quite a lot of coolant towards the drain plug.
What I find to work even better though is to disconnect both hoses that run to the front right by the engine, and apply compressed air on one side and catch fluid coming out the other side. Basically blow the coolant out of the hoses and radiators.
What I find to work even better though is to disconnect both hoses that run to the front right by the engine, and apply compressed air on one side and catch fluid coming out the other side. Basically blow the coolant out of the hoses and radiators.
12-04-2012, 08:14 PM
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You will need one of those UVIEW Air Lift tools for the refill process, and applying a vaccuum a couple of time draws quite a lot of coolant towards the drain plug.
What I find to work even better though is to disconnect both hoses that run to the front right by the engine, and apply compressed air on one side and catch fluid coming out the other side. Basically blow the coolant out of the hoses and radiators.
What I find to work even better though is to disconnect both hoses that run to the front right by the engine, and apply compressed air on one side and catch fluid coming out the other side. Basically blow the coolant out of the hoses and radiators.