[96_gt_stanger]

Hey, I saw your forums here and everyone really sounds like they know what they're doing. I desperately need some advice/help, I'm going to be draining, cleaning, & flushing my coolant system and was wondering if there is anything I should look out for or really be careful of. A tutorial would be awesome or something, because I know what to basically do, and I'd really rather not take to it to a mechanic and spend all kinds of money just to see that he did it wrong anyway. Please & Thank you



P.S., I'll be putting in a new thermometer so any advice about that would be awesome too. Thanks.

[Casper98GT]

Good questions.

Ok, first remove the cap to youre overflow. I usually put mine on the hood latch so if i forget about it... it wont close.

Then find the petcock ( thats a funny word ) open it up. think its the pass side of radiator and its a allen. So remove that and collect all the coolant and dispose of it properly ( always thinking of the enviorment )

Let it drain so its all out. Remove the 2 10mm bolts to the thermostat housing if youre gonna replace the thermo. Make sure when you put it back together you keep the thermostat gasket in place. its an o-ring.

I then put a water hose in the radiator hose and give her hell, getting most of the coolant out and let the water drain out through the radiator.

Once its all clean and you feel good about youre "flush"

You can then close the petcock and start filling. Make sure everything it tight and closed up. Fill it to the Cold full line, and start youre car.

Make sure you keep the overflow cap off, because these 4.6's get wicked air pockets.

Let it get to the warm position on the temp gauge and then shut it off, see if it needs coolant and topp it off. Put cap back on and test drive it. Bring it baack home and check the level again.

Check the level again in approx. 1 day.

Youre all set.

[96_gt_stanger]

ok thanks a lot, that really helped me out . But I have another quick question.. I bought this cleaner fluid stuff that removes sediments and rust (supposidly) from the system that flushing with water might not get alone. And I was wondering if it would hurt anything if I put that and water into the system, and ran the car for like 5 mins or so just so it could fully circulate and clean the system up. (The directions on the bottle say to run the car for like 3-6 hours under normal driving conditions for the best effect) Would it be overkill to use this stuff?

[Casper98GT]

I wouldnt say overkill. But i would personally never use it.

You can just put it in with the coolant and drive it until you get ready to drain the system. So put it in youre overflow the day before and just drive around with it. Maybe it will get more shit out than normal.

Also make sure you remove youre overflow. For some weird reason alot of white shit collects in there. I had quite a bit in mine.

Matty

[96_gt_stanger]

Ok, thanks for all your help :award Can't wait to finish this