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seat belt light stays on after its hooked together

you can if you have a few 5 gallon baskets handy to cart it out to the car.


garden hose works best tho. maybe off the kitchen sink? they sell faucet adapters that a hose will fit on.

easy way is to pull the t stat out, put the housing back on, then take the upper hose off the rad, this way the engine pumps the coolant out, while you keep it full in the rad with a hose. run the engine till clear water comes out the upper hose.

once its clear clean water, turn the hose off, run the car till no more water comes out, then put the t stat back in, and add one gallon of straight antifreeze, not that 50/50 pre mixed crap. one gallon, 14 bucks. dump it in the rad, the whole thing, then top it off and bleed the air out the t stat housing.
 


Okay so I could probably get some 5 gallon buckets and do it that way. One problem I could see though is there not being enough pressure to completely clean it out.
 
theres no pressure, you just need to keep the rad full, the water pump pumps it out the upper hose for you.

the whole system is only 3 or a bit more gallons. thats why one gallon of pure antifreeze works so well. that gives you down to -20 protection.

what you can also do is to flush it to water, then add a cleaner like prestone flush, drive it around a while, let it cool off flush it again. the cleaner will help break any thing up thats stuck inside there. then add your new coolant.
 
found my full how to for a flush, i would have posted it but i did pc stuff and lost some stuff. but was able to pul this out of the dust.


how to flush coolant.


remove the t stat, put the t stat housing back on, take the upper hose off the radiator, then push it down to the ground to a bucket or let it fly.


get your garden hose out, put it in the rad turn it on, then fire up the car, let it run till clear water pumps out the top hose.


then turn the hose off, run the car till no more water comes out the upper hose. then turn it off.


put your t stat back in, with new gasket, the upper hose back on.





now take 1 gallon of full strength green antifreeze, not the 50/50 crap. ( parts store cheap green is fine to use) dump the whole gallon in the radiator, fire up the car, fill the rad with hose water till its full. top as needed till its ready to be bled of air. it will burp and take coolant as the water in the block warms up the t stat opens up for a few seconds till cold coolant hits it and it shuts again.


now to bleed the air out, let it idle rad cap off till the fans turn on, (when the fans are on the temp is over 195 deg, the t stat is wide open) then open the bleeder screw on top the t stat housing a few turns till a steady stream of coolant comes out the hole, shut the screw, top off the rad. cap it.


done.
 


Dog gone it. I was gonna say french fry when I first saw this. Glad the belt light went off. Easy to disable the key / lamps / low fuel chime if anybody wants to. Disconnect the tiny speaker in the black box over the driver's left toes. Drop the hush panel first, you'll see the box. Hate that thing!
 
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