Thread: Convert to reverse flow cooling

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Originally Posted by gassersrule_196

ken, please post up pictures of you bleeder set up

Here ya go. This is how I did it. When I first started my car I immediately new I was going to have a heating problem. I didn't want a upper radiator hose so I had my radiator made with two radiators side by side with a common tank. That way both the inlet and the outlet could be out at the bottom of the radiator. I'm telling you this because my bleeding of the cooling system was a extreme problem. If you do it on a conventional system it is very easy to do. I have two radiator fill caps, one in my cowl vent and one in my grill shell with a bleeder next to it mounted in the tank. another bleeder in the right front head of the motor. so now it is simple to get all the air out of my system. I fill the radiator from the cowl vent, that fills the block and part of the heads on the back side of the thermostat. Then I fill the radiator under the grill Shell, this fills the front side of the thermostat. Put the grill shell on and start it up. leaving the cap off in the cowl vent , so I can add more coolant as needed. when the thermostat opens and It now has full flow I just keep pushing on the bleeders on the motor and on the radiator tank until I get nothing but coolant. Add coolant along the way as needed to fill the system, no hot spots.
When I tear the car apart to paint I have stainless bleeders to get rid of the steel ones.
Ken