Keep the radiator cap on and keep your overflow bottle topped off. What
happens is this. The engine will get hot and push out any air through the
radiator cap vent. When the engine cools after being shut down, the
antifreeze will be siphoned back into the block to replace the void left
from expelling the air earlier. It will top itself off if you don't let the
bottle empty itself. Once full the fluid level in the bottle will level off
and just exchange fluid from heating and cooling during normal engine
running. Hope this helps.
Rich - Ashburn, VA
-----Original Message-----
From: SuperNagz@aol.com [mailto:SuperNagz@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:52 PM
To: dakotart@egroups.com
Cc: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: T-Stat DONE!... One final question
Ok guys... I did the t-stat swap today... piece of cake... only a few drops
of coolant ever hit my driveway! :)
The 'hardest' part was just the tedious but neccessary task of cleaning off
all the old gasket material. I also removed the hose from both ends, and
getting it back on the radiator was kinda a PITA... but all ended well... no
leaks... so no complaints.
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.
Maybe I'll do a real good flush later this year...
Anyways.. here is my quesiton:
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?
I guess all I'm asking is how to know if my entire system is full? And is
it
possible to have too much or too little water in the overflow bottle?
Anyways... I drove around a LOT!! And I tell you what... I can definately
notice a difference on the gauge... I swear the I just can't get that damn
needle to move past the halfway mark between the 130 and 210 ticks... which
is about 170 if the scale is linerar...
I'm impressed.
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