Thread: New member - first question. Might be very serious.

Originally Posted by tedhontz

Scotty, I tried your method twice and I'm not having any luck. When I put the hose in the radiator it pushed out all the liquid from the engine and pushed clear water into the radiator but when I put everything back together I try to dump a gallon of antifreeze in the radiator, it won't take it. It's full of clear water! I've even started the engine thinking it will empty the radiator into the engine and then I'll be able to dump the antifreeze in, but that won't work either. I've left the car parked until today when we finally have a good weather day and now I can't do this so the car is stuck in the driveway still. Please help!! Thank you!!

i turn the hose off, then run the car till noting comes out the upper hose. the rad should be rather dry, some water may flow back past the pump, but once you hook the hoses back up and fire it back up it should take the gallon of coolant.

or you can use a clear tubing and siphon the rad out. i just did this to do a lim job, took a gallon and a pint maybe out the rad to drain the engine's lim. put back the same coolant as its like 3,000 miles old.