[Shotimes] Coolant flush questions

[Bruce Malachuk]

I picked up one of those kits from prestone for flushing. For the $7 I spent
it was well worth it. I even was able to hook up my garden hose to my
kitchen sink so I could flush with cold water, then hot water. Then I
drained the whole thing down, and poured 1 gallon of straight antifreeze in
there. I could see it about 2/3's of the way up the radiator, so I started
the car up, and ran it for a min. Then added about 1/2 a gallon of 50/50 mix
I had made up and that brought it to the top of the rad. The nice thing is
that with the prestone flush kit I had a way to vent the air from the system
pretty quick, just loosen the flush cap a little. Drove it around and then
filled the recovery tank with 50/50, and my mix tested out at 60% water 40%
coolant so I added my bottle of water wetter and away I went. My Opal runns
very cool on the highway, yet it has a newer thermostat. I run at or just
above tha A in normal, stop and go is a different story though.

I also used distilled water for the 50/50 mix, and in a perfect world I
would have flushed the system out with distilled after the hose routine, but
I was in a hurry. Check out the prestone kit, I think it is worth the ease
of a flush and fill that it affords. Can be a 15 to 20 min job. Meaning I'll
do it yearly. 


Bruce Malachuk

94 Opal Frost MTX - so to be sleeping for the winter

93 Black ATX soon to be parts - interior parted waiting on drivetrain drop

93 Green MTX - black interior - the winter beater - aka turd with wheels
right now in the middle of a clutchjob LOTS OF RUST


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Harry Seaman
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:03 AM
To: stevetatro@netzero.com; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Coolant flush questions

I've done this both with and without draining the block.  If you don't drain
the block, there will be a lot of water left in there after the flushing...I
added straight antifreeze and it came out just right. I was able to get a
whole gallon in.  The total system capacity is 2 gallons, more or less.  You
can disconnect the small water line at the throttle body to let the air out
while you're filling the system.

After recently finding the crankcase drain, I prefer to do it that way.
Easy to do if you're already under ther changing the oil.  It's a brass, hex
head plug on the rear of the crankcase.  If you're under the car, looking
forward and up at the engine, it's to the right of the oil pressure sender,
close to one of the freeze plugs.

It's still not a bad idea to do a flush first. And use distilled water to
dilute the anti-freeze.

Harry
95m
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