Not if you haven't pulled the block drains yet. Same for draining the overflow bottle.Coolant was properly drained
When it comes to overflow bottles, it's nice to REMOVE the thing. Take it into the kitchen, half-fill it with hot water, and a drop or two of dishwashing detergent. Shake it up, dump, repeat. Clean it up as good as you can. Then use less hot water plus a half-cup of sand. The wet sand scrubs the inside of the bottle.
Better than nothing. Not as good as a proper flush. If that's what you can do...do it.Skipping the flush and fill kit and just using distilled water and prestone flush and running the engine and draining wouldn't do the job?
That's them. As I said earlier, I replace the iron/steel plug on the passenger side with a brass draincock, so that draining it "next time" is easier. (Both sides, if the passenger side hole doesn't have a knock sensor in it.)can someone please confirm that these are the engine block drains? 1 plug on passenger side (if I remember correctly) and the knock sensor on drivers side. Correct?
Remember to look-up the cooling system capacity in the owner's manual or the service manual; divide by two if you're intending a 50/50 mix. That gets you the total quantity of anti-freeze needed. Half-fill the coolant overflow bottle with anti-freeze, then dump the rest into the radiator. Top-off with your water of choice--I use distilled. Point being, put the water in last, and deliberately under-fill the radiator by an inch or so.
I recommend one of the Lisle cooling-system funnel kits. When the engine is run the first time, it'll burp air into that funnel instead of onto the ground. After the thermostat has cycled a couple of times, all the air is gone except what's in the radiator, and that's easily topped-off without mess.
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