Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (burninfilm) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:57:27 GMT

The info about the JB waterweld is really good. I changed my coolant before my recent big trip, draining via the screw on the waterpump, and had no problems..thankfully !!!I used a pre-packaged ethelyne glycol-silicate free 50/50 mix. It was about half of the comparable Honda product $$ and met, so far as I could determine, all of the Honda specs. My local mechanic said it would be just fine and so far (about 5000 miles) it has been....Bob <><

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (Fredrider) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:41:31 GMT

Yesterday I replaced the coolant for the first time in 3 years & 10 months. Three years and ten months ago when I stripped the drain bolt threads I had been wondering why I even was replacing the coolant. It looked brand-new. Yesterday, I was again wondering the same thing. After almost 4 years and 22,000 miles the old coolant looked the same color and consistency as the new coolant I put in. What's the point?

BTW, the JB Waterweld I plugged the drain hole with has not...

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (MEDICDIVER) — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:32:03 GMT

If you change the coolant on a regular basis you should not have to get it all out. The coolant should not have broken down enough to require complete replacement. You will be adding enough new coolant to do the job.

Larry

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (Fredrider) — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:26:35 GMT

Thanks for the tip Pacman. I would agree that should get most of the coolant out. I've got a couple of years to figure out how to get the little bit out that may still be in the water pump itself. If anybody has any ideas please post them. Thanks.

Fred

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (pacman607) — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:27:49 GMT

It's the hose you've got to fight with every time you change the oil. It goes from the bottom of the radiator to the water pump. System appears to be very similar to a car. So, if you open it up at the lowest point then most of it should drain. Or at least that was my way of thinkin.

Pacman

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (MEDICDIVER) — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:56:38 GMT

Packman,

Is the lower hose easy to access?? it would seem to be a better way to drain the system after reading the post above.

Larry

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (pacman607) — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:50:20 GMT

Changed my coolant this past spring. Not wanting to remove any bolts that weren't necessary, and looking the shop manual over, I just pulled the lower hose off the water pump. Seemed to drain most, if not all, of the system. Don't want to say this is a "proper" way to do it, but an alternative.

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (Fredrider) — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 04:33:46 GMT

Kenny, I did do a fair amount of searching both on the Internet and at a couple of local auto supply stores. I could not find any type of freeze plug made is such a small size. But JB Weld's WaterWeld seems to be doing the trick. I cut off a piece of the epoxy putty, mixed it until it was just one color and very pliable, rolled it up in the shape of a 6 mm diameter plug and inserted it into the water pump's coolant drain hole. The instructions said the putty would be rock-hard in 20...

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (TeeShirtMan) — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 06:58:25 GMT

Fred,

I know you talk from experience. How is it going with the plug repair.

Did you do a lot of searching for that mini freeze out plug.

Good luck,

Kenny T.

Re: How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (Fredrider) — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:03:59 GMT

Don't over-tighten the coolant drain bolt. If you do the steel drain bolt will strip the aluminum threads from the water pump housing resulting in hundreds of dollars to drop the engine and replace the water pump.

Also the manual says that after replacing the coolant to leave the filler cap off while you rev the engine a few times to get rid of entrained air in the coolant system.

Good luck 2Smooth!

Fred

How to PROPERLY Flush cooling system

feeds@yuku.com (2Smooth4U) — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 02:26:24 GMT

I talked to my local "wrench" today and I asked about the Havoline anti-freeze.It seems to be the silicates in anti-freeze that harms the water pump impellor. Silicates,he explained,are actually small beads of glass added in anti-freeze to clean the system.Not good for plastic impellers,though. What disturbed me is he didn't use distilled water, said there wasn't enough volume of water in the little radiator to matter.