Changing the coolant in a 5k is a pita ..

[cody at 5000tq.com]

LOL! Hardly, it sometimes just takes looking at it from a different  
angle ;-). We also don't know that the coolant flow from te after run  
pump would be enough to change the whole system. Does the flow path  
include the heater if you open the heater valve?

http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/trouble_shooting/cooling.html - The  
image towards the top of the page suggests to me that it would do the  
whole system, but then I remembered the t-stat. Even if you start with  
a piping hot engine the cooler stuff you pump in would shut the stat  
right quick :-/. I guess the flow through the head and turbo would  
by-pass the stat though.

-Cody



Quoting Ben Swann <benswann at comcast.net>:

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> From: "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
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> Subject: Re: Changing the coolant in a 5k is a pita plus long rant
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> cobram at juno.com wrote:
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>> Suggestions and comments on this thread are all good ideas.  Now that
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>> it's summer, just fill with water, drive around with windows open and
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>> heater on, dump water and keep doing this until what you get out is
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>> pretty much clean water.  Then run a flush through, and do the same
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>> thing until you're sure all the flush is gone and you're back to
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>> "pure" H2O. Dump from bottom rad hose and fill with 100% good ole
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>> green, should take about a gallon.  The block and nooks and crannies
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>> hold about half the coolant, even with the bottom hose off.
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> Wy not use the electric coolant pump? Disconnect the input hose, run  
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> a bucket of water (pure or otherwise as you see fit) and connect it to the
> pump inlet, then the hose from the engine that used to be connected to the
> pump run to another bucket. You could just watch the clarity and do it in one
> sitting, unless I'm totally off base and the flow isn't right.
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> -Cody Forbes
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