Excellent advice from Ronnie and Tom. But one more thing. If you decide to
backflush the entire cooling system including the heater... First remove
your carpeting from inside the car and remove the drain plugs from the
floor. Just in case you spring a leak in the heater system. Otherwise you'll
be rinsing coolant out of your carpets. I had that happen once, and the
sweet smell of the coolant attracted yellowjackets.
Fred - So.SF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronnie Day" <ronday@home.com>
To: "Adam Bradley" <ambradley@yahoo.com>; "Roadster List"
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: I'm a dummy and I hate the electric fan
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> If you messed up the thermostat at all, and I think you said you did, toss
> it and get a new one. Then, before you put it in, or spend possibly
> unnecessary money getting the radiator redone, flush out the entire
cooling
> system at least with a large garden hose that'll supply plenty of volume
and
> pressure. Turn your heater temp control to full HOT so that the water
flows
> through the heater core, too.
>
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