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Re: Engine Coolant Drain Plug

To: "Max Heim" <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Engine Coolant Drain Plug
From: "Randy Widman" <riwidman@buckeye-express.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:19:18 -0400
Thanks, I tried that it nothing came out.

Randy Widman
'79 Red B
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Max Heim
  To: MG List
  Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 12:48 PM
  Subject: Re: Engine Coolant Drain Plug


  One way to clear out the blockage would be to get one of those "coolant
  flushing kits" which includes a capped "tee" fitting that you splice into
  the heater hose, and is threaded for a garden hose. Full pressure from the
  hose should loosen things up. At least it should find the "weak points' of
  the system...


  --

  Max Heim
  '66 MGB GHN3L76149
  If you're near Mountain View, CA,
  it's the primer red one with chrome wires


  on 9/11/05 3:21 PM, Chad Cooper at mgb72@airmail.net wrote:

  > Leave the plug out and warm up the car.  See if it will blow out the
  > stuff on it's own.  I would reccomend pressurising the system with a
  > cooling system pressure tester, but you may not have one.
  >
  > Randy Widman wrote:
  >
  >> I got the drain plug out and no coolant came out at all. So I assume
it's
  >> plugged up. I poked around in the hole with a wire bent 90 degrees like
  >> Kelvin
  >> Dodd suggested on an archive posting and got what looked like a small
amount
  >> of greasy dirt out but I can't seem to figure out where the plugged up
area
  >> is. Anyone have any suggestions I can try? To clarify that I took the
correct
  >> plug out, it is the one just in front of the oil sending line.
  >>
  >> TIA for your ideas.
  >>
  >> Randy Widman
  >> 79




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