Date:         Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:47:43 -1000
Reply-To:     Ed Sato <edsato@JUNO.COM>
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From:         Ed Sato <edsato@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Air in the system
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Maybe you should be you hit it right on the nose. Aloha, Ed


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:38:46 -0600 Simon Reinhardt <simon@FARRSIDE.NET>
writes:
> The problem seems to be that everyone thinks this method will force
> the
> air back into some other part of the system.
> Now, I'm no fizzics perfessor, but empirical evidence gathered over
> my
> lifetime would suggest to me that, with all other bleeders and caps
> closed, opening the radiator bleed hole while there's a bottle of
> fluid
> trying to get into it will put fluid into the bleed hole... and
> force
> any air OUT THE SAME HOLE.
> Any fluid dynamical types out there who know a reason why this
> wouldn't
> hold true, please post your experiences...
> -Simon
>
> On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 12:39  PM, wb6otg wrote:
>
> > I have posted this solution a time or two also, but no one seem
> to
> > want to do it this way.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ---------------------------
> >  I don't know if anyone remembers this but awhile back I posted a
> > solution
> >  to filling the radiator from the bleeder hole with the engine
> cold.
> > You
> >  use a plastic juice jug and a 3 feet length of aquarium air
> line.
> >  Puncture the bottom of the juice jug so the hole will fit the air
> line
> >  snugly. Put the other end in the radiator bleed hole. Fill the
> jug
> > with
> >  premix fluid and fill till fluid comes out the bleed hole. You
> won't
> >  believe how fast and easy this method is. It is also fool proof.
> Hope
> >  everyone gets it this time. Aloha, Ed Sato
> >
>
>