Yet another coolant fluching question
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Yet another coolant fluching question
Once you have gone through all of the steps and have gotten all of the old coolant out. The block will have pure water in it right? So how do you do a 50/50 mix if you do not know who much water is in the block? Does that make any since?
I may be missing something.
I meant Yet another coolant FLUSHING question
I may be missing something.
I meant Yet another coolant FLUSHING question
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You are CORRECT...the BLOCK will have straight distilled water......now you fill the rest of the system (radiator and lines and bottle) with coolent and ....presto, it's 50/50 - once you drive it until up to operation temp and the thermostat opens and it runs a while.
Fill the bottle to the BOTTOM line .
Fill the bottle to the BOTTOM line .
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I thought you drained it one more time to get as much of the distilled water out as possible. Then add 13.75 quarts of pure coolant which is half of the 27.5 quarts that your system holds. Then top off with distilled water. You can never drain all the distilled water out as some will always stay in the heater core, etc. This will give you your 50/50 mixture.
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Thats funny, did not see it that way, and I was just being a dumb ****.
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I thought you drained it one more time to get as much of the distilled water out as possible. Then add 13.75 quarts of pure coolant which is half of the 27.5 quarts that your system holds. Then top off with distilled water. You can never drain all the distilled water out as some will always stay in the heater core, etc. This will give you your 50/50 mixture.
COLD motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with PURE antifreeze
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Wait for motor too cool
Check and fill TOO BOTTOM line with, I used a 50/50 mixture.
ab
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That's the way I did it.
COLD motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with PURE antifreeze
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Wait for motor too cool
Check and fill TOO BOTTOM line with, I used a 50/50 mixture.
ab
COLD motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with distilled water
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Running temperature motor... drain radiator
Fill radiator with PURE antifreeze
RUN motor with heater on till thermostat opens
Wait for motor too cool
Check and fill TOO BOTTOM line with, I used a 50/50 mixture.
ab
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