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Gotta change out my radiator (06 350). Coupla questions:
Is the line disconnect tool the same one that I bought for the fuel pump?
How much fluid drains?
Being a cheap, miserly bass turd, I'm getting a shop to replace the plastic top cap that has a tiny crack. Should I assume that they'd flush the whole thing out, or whatever it is radiator shops do, when they do that, or should I ask them to do that as well?
Since your talking tranny cooler I guess you mean when disconnecting the lines and not draining the radiator itself.
For the tranny lines a small 4-5 guarts pan will do. Not much will draim out.
The fuel line tools will not work as you have found out.
There is a special tool available from many places. Specify to them it is for removeing the tranny lines on a 6.0 Lisle makes a plastic one. inexspensive.
Well, after buying all 4 types of disconnect tools at 3 auto parts stores and none of them fitting, I went to the radiator shop and borrowed his.
He warned me that some of those lines are hard to get out, and sure enough the one on the passenger side wouldn't budge. Got the other out, but ended up taking the fitting off the stuck side. Now, I'll probably have that start leaking soon.
But, in a potential play for another Bonehead Award:
None of the auto parts stores by me carry diesel coolant for our trucks. Thought I might have some left from flushing my '05 recently, and sure enough, I found a bottle that looked like all the empty Zerez G05 bottles I saved, except the label was worn off from being outside.
Opened it, poured a little out in my waste bucket and it was gold just like the Zerez, so I started to pour it in my degas bottle. Got a couple of gulps out, maybe a 1/4 cup, when it hits me that it's oil, not Zerez.
Do I gotta replace all that high dollar coolant out now? I haven't started the truck, would it float on top such that I could suck most of it out? Is that little bit gonna hurt anything?
Couldn't say but I never can remember how long I've had it or if I've dumped something else in it I do use the left over bit from an oil change for lubing orings and that's about it. Everything thing else I consider waste solely to keep myself from doing exactly what you did now if I had better storage things may would be different.
Couldn't say but I never can remember how long I've had it or if I've dumped something else in it I do use the left over bit from an oil change for lubing orings and that's about it. Everything thing else I consider waste solely to keep myself from doing exactly what you did now if I had better storage things may would be different.
I have this BIG black marker that I use to date bottles
that I have some left in. Then when I use the same bottle
for dump I put a bunch of "X"s all over the top and neck.
I do have 2ea 3 gallon jugs for used oil that goes to the recycler.
Then there is brake fluid. Use it or loose it. I only keep that
a short time. The reason I don't keep it once the bottle is opened
is it hydroscopic. Sucks water out of the air.
On the oil in the coolant if it were me I would be doing a soap
flush and distilled water flush till it clear. Yes I know you will
be trashing $100 worth of coolant and distilled water. But what is
more costly would be having that stuff gel up on you and
kill the cooler.
On the oil in the coolant if it were me I would be doing a soap
flush and distilled water flush till it clear. Yes I know you will
be trashing $100 worth of coolant and distilled water. But what is
more costly would be having that stuff gel up on you and
kill the cooler.
That's why you're the Ford Tech and I'm the Bonehead, LOL.
But still, why would it have ever left the degas bottle? Wouldn't it float on the coolant, rather than act like Drano and go through the coolant, down the hoses, and into the engine? I could understand the precautionary flush if I'd run the engine, or like an old car, poured it right in the radiator. But it was just a few tablespoons into the degas bottle and should still be there.
I thought suction everything out of the degas I could, then pinch and disconnect the hoses before removing and cleaning.
07-18-2015, 11:02 AM
I do use the left over bit from an oil change for lubing orings and that's about it. Everything thing else I consider waste solely to keep myself from doing exactly what you did 
