Filling the TA with new coolant
01-27-2008, 01:08 AM
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Filling the TA with new coolant alright so on the upper radiator support it says that this car has a special procedure to fill the antifreeze and to look in the owners manual i looked and cant find anything about it so how would i go about filling the coolant up after the h/c swap
01-27-2008, 02:10 AM
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Here's what I did, it worked great. With the car off you disconnect the TB coolant hose, this will give the air a way to escape when you are filling the radiator. Fill until the coolant level gets close to the top, give it a second for it to go down, repeat. When you start to get coolant coming from the coolant crossover tube and the level in the radiator will not go down, then you know you are good. Hook the TB coolant line back up and start your car, the level will fluctuate a little with the opening of the thermostat, so just keep it full. I did the HVAC delete so I didn't have to worry about that, but if you have it you should turn your heat on while you are filling to get all of the air out of the lines. After a while it started to push coolant back out so I capped it off and that was that.
I got all my info off of the ls1howto.com website on the electric water pump install. It would be a good idea to check that out.
I got all my info off of the ls1howto.com website on the electric water pump install. It would be a good idea to check that out.
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Here's what I did, it worked great. With the car off you disconnect the TB coolant hose, this will give the air a way to escape when you are filling the radiator. Fill until the coolant level gets close to the top, give it a second for it to go down, repeat. When you start to get coolant coming from the coolant crossover tube and the level in the radiator will not go down, then you know you are good. Hook the TB coolant line back up and start your car, the level will fluctuate a little with the opening of the thermostat, so just keep it full. I did the HVAC delete so I didn't have to worry about that, but if you have it you should turn your heat on while you are filling to get all of the air out of the lines. After a while it started to push coolant back out so I capped it off and that was that.
I got all my info off of the ls1howto.com website on the electric water pump install. It would be a good idea to check that out.
I got all my info off of the ls1howto.com website on the electric water pump install. It would be a good idea to check that out.
