Re: How to bleed hydraulic fluid? Coolant change?

[Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>]

Just make sure you only loosen the brass bolt on the top of that 
radiator.  I took mine off and the nut fell of its slot into the radiator. 
15 minutes of cursingly painful fingering of the radiator through the rear 
hole found the nut (sounds kinky, no?).  Got it back in the slot by taking 
an old fishtank cleaner (pipe cleaner on steroids) and tying the nut to the 
looped end with some thread, getting it close and then pushing it into 
place with a screwdriver.  Took about 13 minutes longer to do than to type 
this...   ;-)

Anyways, the bolt is banjoed and only needs to be loosened about 1/4" 
(quarter).

You want the car warm so the thermostat is open, and the heater turned on 
so the core is open, slowly (let it hiss, the fluid level will rise - judge 
it kinda like a shaken-up bottle of soda) undo the expansion cap.


At 08:21 PM 10/16/1999 ,  Alexander van Gerbig was inspired to say:
>     Coolant is easy to change, although I have never done.  Remove bumper
>and clear a free path from the lower radiator hose to the garage floor.
>Undo that hose and catch the used coolant in something.  Is that sufficient
>for draining the old juice?  Then do that hose up and refill with fresh
>mixture.  Run the car with expansion cap off and let all the bubbles find
>their way out.  Run the car until the cooling fans spontaneously turn on,
>let the fans run for a few then when no bubbles appear, cap the tank and
>turn the engine off.  Sound proper?


Cheers,
	Richard
	88 90Q "Hannu" - K+N, new vac hoses, lubed U-Joint, still 0.0 bar....
	88 Golf GTi - PRO Rally