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nick
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 06:26 pm: | 
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Can someone please tell me where the drain plugs are on the block,saw two brass plugs ,one on each corner in the rear of the block but they are pointing straight down not like the usual which would be on the side of block (picture would be nice)also what do you all think of the orange anti-freeze, is it ok for all an aluminum engine?thanks... |
jec
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 09:15 pm: |
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Nick:
They're about 2/3 of the way toward the rear on both sides, at about the level of the freeze plugs. Driver side is not too bad to get to, but passenger side is hidden behind the bracket for the engine mount, as I recall. And they point perpendicular to the side of the block, as you expected. They're iron, about 1/4-inch pipe size.
Don't know about the orange stuff - I use green. But there's been lots of previous discussion - try putting "orange" into the keyword search on the left.
John |
GregH
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 10:54 pm: |
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If by "orange" you're referring to "dexcool" type antifreeze-I think most new vehicles have this factory installed including LR's. It's actually safer for aluminum due to it's no phosphate ingredients-lasts longer too. Prestone and Havoline both make it. Pretty cheap at Walmart.
GregH |
nick
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 11:01 pm: |
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Thanks alot, since they are iron I guess I will leave them alone and flush it by removing lower hose since the iron plug most probably has fused to the aluminum (why dont they use brass).This is a 96 DI do you think I should even bother taking out the plugs? |
Pugsly (Pugsly)
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 01:04 am: |
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In my Rover the plugs are brass. I recommend that you go to the trouble of finding the plugs and flushing the cooling system out through them. The junk (sediment) that is in the block will only come out that way.
Mine came out really easily. The plugs are square drive. If you are trying to unscrew a six-sided bolt you are not opening the cooling system drain plugs!! |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 08:16 pm: |
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Do some internet searches before swithing to Dexcool - there are problems- mainly in completely flushing the system, which is practically impossible.
Can't find it right now, but there was a paper written by A GM cooling system engineer a year ago or so that was circulated on the net that gave some good solid reasons for not switching to Dexcool.
Bill |
Bill K (Bill_K)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 07:48 am: |
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You need to remove the brass plugs to get a complete flush. They are not hard, just a little awkward to get to. And remove the lower rad hose (or cut it off, they seem to get glued on) I have been using the dexcool for 2 years and it works really good. |
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