It's time to flush my rad again, but I forget how much coolant/water to put in.

Anyone know?

TIA

 

me personally I would roll about 30% coolant and 70% water in the summer time, nothing cools beter that good old h2o. in winter I put a 50-50 mixtuer. dont forget the 160 stat!

 

Already have a 160* t-stat

Anyone know how many Qts to put in?

 

15 quarts

 

If eveything is empty including the block, it should hold 15 qts. I found out last weekend that the block holds about 2 gallons ( I wasn't able to get the block drain plugs out)

HTH

Sam

 

Yes, as mentioned above, chances are that you won't be able to drain all the coolant and so you won't need 15 quarts. I'd recommend getting some distilled water and have a few extra quarts as a backup because it may take a little more fluid to get all the crap out.

If *I* were to do it, I'd just take the radiator out and do it right.

 

I will only be flushing the rad not the block. How many qts for that?

 

Assuming every hose is drained just short of 2 gallons (15qts - 2 gal)

 

15 qts is not 2 gallons....

 

That was 15 quarts minus 2 gallons = 7 quarts.

 

gotcha now.


Ion, can you take a look at my TPS and MAP post and check the datamaster file out and see if you can determine wtf is going on with these 2 sensors?