Thread: Its Friday,,, Here we go again.

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Drove to the Car Show and back - - - trouble free, However:

I "OBVIOUSLY NEED" to flush my Radiator,, which I will do next week, here is what it did yesterday from the house to Wolf Creek Park and back which was approx 120 miles round trip.

The Red Line is where the "rusty" fluid was in the puke bucket when I got home and the blue line is where it was this morning after cooling all night long. NOTICE: it never ran hot yesterday and was a pretty constant 195/205.



When I emptied the overflow jug, it measured 3 cups and when i added the fluid back it just barely covered the top of the coils looking into the fill hole.



Any suggestions on what to do other than flush, add new coolant and continue the process?

Originally Posted by MelloYello

Any suggestions on what to do other than flush, add new coolant and continue the process?

Years ago before I left California I decided to flush the radiator in my 57. Got a lot of junk out of the radiator and I got more when I back flushed the block. There should be a pipe plug on either side of the block and I screwed a water hose into them one at a time and dropped the lower radiator hose and let the water run until it came out clean.