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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 04:06 PM
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i just bought some purple ice made by royal purple. i plan on flushing my old coolant out and putting the purple ice in. does anyone know how many quarts of fluid our radiator holds? i need to know for the ratio of additive to water
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 04:13 PM
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 04:15 PM
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you may run into a problem when flushing your system out, the fluid from your engine will need to be drained and to do this you need to remove two bolts from the engine, I only found the location of one
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...329&highlight=
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 04:30 PM
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thats okay i'll figure it out. my friend has a lift and a flush machine at his work and they are gonna let me use it sometime this week. ill post where the location of the other bolt is. i should be able to find it. thanks for the info tho
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so aaron, you knew how many quarts our radiator holds, now do you know how many quarts our tranny holds? im planning running royal purple there too
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thats right, but if you just drop the pan you'll need 7.4 quarts
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