I can do every single other drainage neatly and without making a mess. When it comes to the coolant I end up with the green sea across my garage floor. I've emptied it 2 different ways. One is via the factory drain spout on the passenger side. The other way is to pull of the hose at the thermastat elbow pipe. Both seem to generate about the same mess. Not a big problem there.

The problem is always with draining all coolant from the motor. The second the thermastat comes out you better WATCH out :eek: I was able to capture most of it in the bin, but am I nutz. Am I missing a completely easy way to drain it other than prying out the old thermastat?

my coolant is orange.... should I be conerned?

Rich

:lol: yeah, if you're coolant is orange, you should be changing that puppy out, probably rusted something.....might wanna do you water pump too, hope that hasn't corroded

as for draining.....i used the drain plug at the radiator. before i open the drain plug, connect a piece of hose to it, so that you can direct it into the drain pan.......one complaint i had was, that drain plug is so darn small, takes forever to drain completely.

if you want it to drain quickly, you have to pretty much remove the plug completely, but then you'll have a mess, unless you want to take off the sub-frame assembly

I picked up a $2 small funnel from my auto parts store and shoved it in around the radiator drain. That got rid of almost all of the spillage.
Also, I think it's too much trouble to try to dry the entire cooling system (not just the radiator), so I just drain the radiator *every* year and refill w/50:50 coolant, figuring that doing that twice over two years is about the same as draining the whole system once every two years.

Gotcha. I've drained a motor twice and both times needed to shower afterwards. I guess it is just the luck of the draw. A tube of some sort to go over teh thermastat as you pull it out would probably help.

Originally posted by SJwrx
my coolant is orange.... should I be conerned?

Rich
Don't worry yet....

Mine is also orange but that because I purposely fliushed and filled with Prestone's extended life coolant.

-Mileage?
-Are you the original owner?
-If over 30k mls do you know if the coolant was replaced during the 30k mls service?

Originally posted by Albert
-Mileage?
-Are you the original owner?
-If over 30k mls do you know if the coolant was replaced during the 30k mls service?

Since 15K, but still running it. Its out this weekend
Yes
No idea...

Rich

Originally posted by vile
:lol: yeah, if you're coolant is orange, you should be changing that puppy out, probably rusted something.....might wanna do you water pump too, hope that hasn't corroded

Bwahahahahahahahah! Have you changed your boost fluid yet? what color is that? Bwahahahahah!