Date:         Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:16:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum_westy@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Mike Collum <collum_westy@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Air in the system
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Whenever I employ this method with the nose in the air
(parked heading up a steep hill) I have to pinch off
the overflow hose between the expansion tank and the
overflow tank or gravity, when the radiator bleeder is
open, will cause coolant flow out the low point while
I'm trying to "Top off" at the high point.

Mike
'85 Westy
'84 GL

--- gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> Dave,
>     I am just guessing here dave but I think you
> remove the blue cap in the back so that you get a
> flow
> of fluid out the back after you have over filled the
> system.   I still think that this will only displace
> the air in the radiator,  Ed are you there for
> comment?
>          gary
> --- DaveC <voicebox@dnai.com> wrote:
> > --- Ed Sato <edsato@juno.com> wrote:
> > >  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
> >
> > I don't understand this...
> >
> > "filling the radiator from the bleeder hole..."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "Fill the jug with premix fluid and fill till
> fluid
> > comes out the
> > bleed hole..."
> >
> > Coolant in the bleed hole... fluid out the bleed
> > hole. So, where does
> > the air go?
> >
> > Dave
> > --
> > Dave Carpenter
> >
> > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
> > indistinguishable from
> > magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
> >
>
>
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