Re: Re: flushing coolant?

From: andy levy (andy-dml@levyclan.us)
Date: Sun Sep 05 2004 - 22:38:12 EDT


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Removing the drain plugs also gives you the opportunity to swap in the
Mopar block heater. Assuming you live in a location that would make use
of it.

On 9/5/2004 2:28 PM, Tony Cellana wrote:
| Removing the drain plugs will allow you to remove anything heavy that
might
| have settled in the water jackets.
|
| Depends on how complete a job you want to do.
|
| Tony
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: werlax@hotmail.com <werlax@hotmail.com>
| To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
| <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
| Date: Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:04 PM
| Subject: DML: flushing coolant?
|
|
|
|>Is it really necessary to remove the engine block drain plugs to drain the
|>coolant prior to flushing the system? Wouldn't flushing the system take
|
| care
|
|>of getting the coolant out of the engine block. I was just going to remove
|>the lower radiator hose and get out what I can, then remove the upper and
|>stick a hose in it (after removing the thermostat, of course).
|>Thanks much for any tips.
|>Mark
|>
|>
|>
|
|

- --
- -andy

http://home.rochester.rr.com/alevy/dakota - andy-dml@levyclan.us
- --------------------------------------------
"Whatever Adam does, do the opposite and you'll be fine"
        -Bob Tom
- --------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFBO82UxPJNBidNgHkRAmHeAJ9V56OkjfPvqfT9PEgs4Qa+4xCirwCcCAhx
2+ik6Ic/0BuLiZLbkhYa8KM=
=1qDn
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Oct 01 2004 - 11:38:58 EDT