At 07:51 PM 3/25/00 EST, you wrote:
> <snip>
>First off... I noticed kinda a lot of brown junk on the t-stat, in the
>radiator, and inside the radiator hose. Not to gross anybody out, but it
>kinda looked like baby poop!!! Has anybody else seen this in their cooling
>system? I guess I'm just kinda worried about contaminated coolant...
>especially when the truck is less than a year old and only 8,000 miles on it.
> <snip>
Might be part of a water pump conditioner.
>How am I 100% sure my entire cooling system is full? At first I just ran
the
>truck in the driveway with the rad cap off... and kept adding to the
radiator
>as the air bubbles escaped... then.. I kept driving around... coming back..
>and topping off. It finally looks like the radiator is full to the top...
>however... what about that overflow bottle?? What do I do there?
There should be a min. and max. line somewhere on the overflow bottle.
Coolant mix should added at the bottle until level is just at or above
the min. line until the next flush and drain. At least, that's my
understanding.
Bob. Southern Ontario, Canada.
'97 Dakota CC Sport, FR, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.
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