In the Process of changing coolant help please
#1
In the Process of changing coolant help please
ok i drained all the coolant from the radiatior drain plug but i cannot get the drain plug off the bottom of the engine block its on way to tight and i have a shitty allen wrench.. how big of a deal is it if i just flush it with water and not drain however much is in the engine block. next , i bought purple g12 + coolant from here http://www.blauparts.com/audi/audi_f...pleaudicoolant
and im not sure if i have enough i bought 1 bottle because i figured it would tell you if you needed 2 or more which it doesnt. thanks in advance
and im not sure if i have enough i bought 1 bottle because i figured it would tell you if you needed 2 or more which it doesnt. thanks in advance
#2
oh ya the bottle is 1.5L and so mixing it 50-50 would make 3 Liters obv but would that be enough to reach the middle of min - max level? bare with me i just got my audi i dont know anything about them
#3
Yes that would be fine, you don't need to get all the coolant out of the block because its a life time coolant anyway. The coolant system only holds about a gallon, so you have enough mixed with water at a 50/50 rate.
#6
well i ran into another problem.. i cant get to the rear coolant pipe to bleed the air , theres a few hoses in the way which im not sure what they do and it fairly deep down would need a pretty big allen wrench i read in another thread that you might be able to just leave tthe cap off the coolant tank , would this work or do i have to use the bleeder screws?
#7
I've always used the (easy to access) one in front of the block and let it purge itself and never had a problem.
It also doesn't help that when the rear tube was replaced under warranty, the guys (in MA) stripped the allen plug, so even trying is fruitless until I change that tube, which won't happen unless it leaks! So even if I wanted to purge there, I can't.
--MIKE--
It also doesn't help that when the rear tube was replaced under warranty, the guys (in MA) stripped the allen plug, so even trying is fruitless until I change that tube, which won't happen unless it leaks! So even if I wanted to purge there, I can't.
--MIKE--
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