Type-44: 200q cooling system flush/fill tips.

[Larry C Leung]

The way I recovered recently changed fluid was to use a fuel siphon.
Started with the overflow tank, drained out what I couldn't siphon at the
tank's bottom hose, then siphoned the upper rad hose, drained the rad,
then siphoned at the upper hose mounting to the block. By the time I
pulled the thermostat and heater hoses, Not much more than a quart came
out, splashing all over the block on the way out.

LL - NY

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:56:20 -0500 Marc Swanson
<marcswanson at mediaone.net> writes:
>> yes, I believe the question was, how to do this :-)  I believe the
>> Bentley does cover this part, Will.  There are no plugs etc, just
>> gotta pull a few hoses.
>
>oh, oops.  Guess I should have explained that part.  Actually,
>draining out
>the coolant in a controlled fashion is relatively difficult since it
>is hard
>to pull the hose part way off to drain slowly.  Ever try to save
>recently
>replaced coolant for re-use before?  Its a PITA, trust me :-)
>
>Anyway, to answer that question just pull the hose on the radiator
>side that
>connects to the t-stat housing.  That will drain almost all of the
>coolant
>out. The rest will come out when you pull the t-stat itself.
>
>> >- blast away!
>>
>> Well...carefully.  Here, the water pressure(60+psi) is plenty
>enough
>> to do some serious damage to the cooling system.
>
>not to the block.  No way a garden hose will damage anything by
>blasting at
>full power into the filler neck.  By the time the water reaches the
>heater
>core it will not be packing nearly as big a wallup.  When flushing
>the
>radiator you might want to use more caution of course.
>
>> BTW Will, there are two schools of thought with the various
>radiator
>> flush solutions.  One school says "don't, you'll cause leaks" and
>the
>> other school says "yes, do it, it cleans things up, and if it
>causes
>> a leak, well, that was going to leak anyway, just a matter of
>time."
>
>If you flush your radiator and it causes a leak you either hit it with
>WAY
>too much pressure or it was going to leak anyway (or already was?).
>
>-Marc-
>87 4ktq
>88 90q