Anyone have a pic showing where it is? I searched and I keep reading about opening the radiator drain plug for a coolant flush but i have no idea what it looks like. if someone can post a pic that would help me out lots. btw, my car is lowered to the ground...literally. so will i need a jack to get to it or something? i have have the stock mazda radiator.

 

You may need to remove the plastic underbelly cover. Mine is off so I can't remember. It is a wingnut on the bottom of the radiator. turn it so the nut goes inward towards the radiator.

 

yes you will need to jack it up...gotta catch the fluid somehow

 

as mentioned, jack the front of the car up a bit. i think the stock underpanel has a hole in teh vacinity of the drail plug, but its easier to just takt he underpanel off.... then the drain plug is easy to see, its right in the middle of the bottom of the rad. be careful, the stock plug is plastic and can get defromed/stripped easy if you dont put good pressure on it while you unscrew it.

 

any other way to drin w/o having to get underneath the car?

 

man... ur the wrong guy to be owning this car if you cant figure out how to train the rad.

 

Yes, take it to a shop and have them do it.

 

no...you really need to get the front of teh car up at least a little bit... PM me if you need more help.

 

I just posted cause I just saw Damian was closing in on my post count

Also if you doing a full flush, drain the engine block as well.

Tim

 

does anybody happen to have the picture i took of it a while back? I am thinking of the plug on the engine block so that you can get all the coolant out of the engine instead of just out of the radiator. i personnaly lost all the pics i took to locate that and how to drain and repalce the tranny fluid.

just remember, about 1/2 your coolant is still in the block