Drained cooling system...add 2 petcocks/flush...

[riotwarrior]

As stated above.. Pics!

Pics of what? Dirty coolant? I mean really now....I'll do pics of coolant filter install...not dirty coolant...

Have you thought about trying Restore Plus? Its supposed to be for flushing rust and scale out of the cooling system. The powerstroke guys swear by the stuff.

No as a matter of fact I haven't

 

[HammerDown]

Well, being it's coolant flush time again, I suppose I'll attempt getting those block drains out again.
Many-many years ago the ******** wouldn't budge > maybe the rust inside weakened the threads lol
I forget > does the starter have to come out to access the passenger side?

 

[riotwarrior]

Well, being it's coolant flush time again, I suppose I'll attempt getting those block drains out again.
Many-many years ago the ******** wouldn't budge > maybe the rust inside weakened the threads lol
I forget > does the starter have to come out to access the passenger side?

For me...NOPE...for you...YUUUUP!....I'd suggest that you take a nice pencil torch and go around and around the plug and get it good and warm...then turn the plugs out. Get them cracked...don't pull em all way out...let cool then do it...then you won't have a HOT plug fall down and burn you and you won't get a nasty blast of hot coolant.

I cleared the system today with the last flush of clear water over and over and over. Then I completely drained the system and let draine and dry, plugged it up tight and added four US gallons of SCA precharged coolant. All good, now to install the filter setup! Catch all the nasty left overs if there is any.

 

[6.9poweredscout]

4 gallons? My scout took 6 when I refilled it...

 

[riotwarrior]

4 gallons? My scout took 6 when I refilled it...

Four gallons of coolant....3 more of water!....and I have yet to BURP it to ensure it's full!

 

[6.9poweredscout]

ahh ok, i was just making sure. for a second i thought you didn't get it all drained.

 

[justinray]

Sorry, pics of the block drain locations, I'm about to tackle this but want to be comfortable with it prior.

 

[gdhillon]

Its a messy one justin

Al, whered you get the petcocks? Napa here doesn't carry 9/16th

 

[whiteboyslo]

Al, whered you get the petcocks? Napa here doesn't carry 9/16th

Inquiring minds want to know. A part number or size would be very helpful.

Mike

 

[OLDBULL8]

Its a messy one justin

Al, whered you get the petcocks? Napa here doesn't carry 9/16th

There is no such thing as 9/16" petcocks. They are all NPT (National Pipe Threads) 1/8" -- 1/4" --- 3/8" --- 1/2" are the sizes they come in.

 

[gdhillon]

Haha well that's my problem then, do. What size are ours supposed to be? I thought 9/16 cause thats the socket size?

 

[riotwarrior]

Well fortunately for me I have spare engines floating around as cores, I pulled a plug from one of those, went to NAPA and I got two petcocks from there...simple nuff....

 

[whiteboyslo]

....and the size was?

Mike

 

[riotwarrior]

....and the size was?

Mike

Walked in with a pipe plug in hand....walked out with petcocks....they where the same size so I didn't care what size...sorry....just that simple...they fit...size doesn't matter!

 

[whiteboyslo]

Yeah, I know. Just trying to not have multiple trips. I've had 'em out once, so maybe I can just eyeball 'em and get lucky.

Mike