Cooling System Pressure Tester

[gthphotography]

Hey all, I recently had coolant leak and I couldn't find it (but eventually it found me) so I decided to build a pressure tester. I found this off of LRR forums, but unfortunately the mobile experience kept redirecting me to some shitacular click bait stuff. But I was able to get the basic idea. So here is my take.......

 

[jim-00-4.6]

Hey all, I recently had coolant leak and I couldn't find it (but eventually it found me) so I decided to build a pressure tester. I found this off of LRR forums, but unfortunately the mobile experience kept redirecting me to some shitacular click bait stuff. But I was able to get the basic idea. So here is my take.......

Nice.

Open some other draining port, and with GENTLE application of pressure, you can also push damn near all of the coolant (of any color) out of your system.