Thread: Mechanically inclined noob

your coolant is dex coolant, its brown and crappy. flush it clean, then re fill using the green coolant.

you cant clean a cat.

those bearings are a waste of money, buy a name brand parts local from a parts store with a 3 year warranty, your gonna need it. ive warrantied the same hub 3 times now, with no real miles to speak of.

this way when it goes bad it a local trip to get a new one. no shipping or BS involved. you can buy them at advance auto's web site, add a discount code and pay less, then pick up at your local store.

Originally Posted by keonmakesbeatz

How do I properly flush the coolant?

Btw I have a Chilton manual for the car. Would this answer a lot of my questions? Sorry that I have so many questions. It's my first car and I want to do work on it but I haven't done much with cars and I don't wanna mess things up by doing things the improper way.

the manual is great to have, but they do make you go the long way more often than not. read it, then look up a how to for the same job, you can cut a few step out of the manual.


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.

Originally Posted by keonmakesbeatz

Replace it?




What do you mean by this?

if your cars been running ok re use it. or buy a new one if you like. get a 195 degree t stat.