i ve got loads of brown and orangy stuff in my radiator and think its about time i got round to flushing it. whats the safest way to flush and refil it so that i dont get air locks. also will i need to flush repeatidly to get rid of all the crap thats inside the radiator.

 

Cheers

Aki

When I got my Z the radiator was so full of that muddy shit, it had actually blocked off the inlet and we had to chisel through it before we could put the radflush in it. We used about 4 bottles and still dont think we got all of it. Now its filled with straight antifreeze at the recommendation of the garage I use.

adam

thanks for the reply mate just a few more questions.

when you say you had to block off the inlet, which pipe do you mean. is it the pipe at the top or bottom of the rad? also did you have any problems filling it up with antifreeze, the reason i ask is because when a flushed and refilled my last car i didnt open the relaese valve and ended up getting air lock and cooking the cylibder head gasckett.

 

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aki

I didnt block off any inlets , the nasty crap inside had already done it!!