okay guys i just drained my radiator and replaced my thermostat , and flushed everything, the problem is my drain plug for my radiator was stripped(previous owner) and i disconnected the bottom rad hose to drain it i flushed the whole system with water and filled the radiator to the top with water , not thinking how i was gonna get the 50/50 antifreeze mix in , now im stuck with a empty engine and a full rad with only water , what can i do

 

Uh, drain the water and add your 50/50?

 

^he cant rad drain is stripped but you can just pull off the lower hose will let most if not all the wter out

 

ya i know i can do that but that would result in me taking out the fan shroud , battery etc , because i cant drain it properly , can i just fill the reservoir with pure antifreeze and let it mix itself?

 

Well other than trying to get the petcock to turn you don't have much of a choice.

 

cant i just run water till the pump sucks that in then fill the rest with pure antifreeze?, wont the rad full of water eventually empty into the engine allowing me to refill it with antifreeze?

 

^^it doest work like that but if you go from the bottom of the car i dont see a poblem with diconnecting the lower hose

 

yah i guess ill do that if there is no other way its just a pain to remove the fan cover, with means removing batter and the holder for it and i cut my hand open putting that back on today looks like im out of luck and im gonna end up doing that.. lol

 

y cant you just go from the bottom of the car and not remove all that **** just disconect the hose from the engine and let it rain out the hose

 

because its one of those clip hoses wont it be alot harder to do that?

 

You can kinda coax it through the engine if the block is completely empty or it has lots of air in it. If you squeeze the upper or lower rad hose it will act like a pump, but it is *not* a super fast proccess. You need to have the rad cap off when you trying to prime the system. Cover the rad cap with your hand when you squeeze the hose, then let off of the filler when you let go of the hose. This will force water into the block and air to come back through to the filler. It is not a fast process, but if you are patient, it will work.

As for the stripped drain plug, remove the air cleaner box and see if you can get to the lower hose that way. I think that is how I got to the lower rad hose. Also make sure your heater control is set to hot so the coolant will flow through the heater core too. If you can't get to the hose at the rad, then remove it from the waterpump housing.

 

okay, cool, im also confused about the engine being empty, wouldnt the water pump just suck all that water in while the engine is running then i could refill the rad with antifreeze?

 

okay update , managed to get the drain plug off by jamming a flathead in and twisting lol ,now can i swap it with the air bleeder plug? and then just fill with premix and im good?

 

sir bledder plug? idk but if it fits and you can get it back out when needed i dont see why not

 

also, i had just flushed the rad a day ago and there was a bit of 50 50 Premix sitting in the reservoir but now when i drained the rad it was golden? and all i had put was water could this mean that my coolant seals are done??