you should flush the system with water to get all that dexcool out

 

Is there a thread on how to flush effectively?

 

The real problem is how to flush the system with distilled water? I'm waiting to do mine until I rig some sort of pressurized flushing system.

 

fill it with distilled water let it run, drop the water and use you'res or you neighbors leave blower to get the residual water out of the block

 

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there you go! I'm going to try that.

 

I know, but it's been cold here....too cold for that kind of project. I'm guessing it's been flushed recently because what came out of it looked very clean. I used 3 1/2 gals of 50/50 peak global lifetime so there's no risk of it doing the gel thing. It's amazing how much you can get out if you gently blow into the hoses.

When I was trying to get the broken bleed screw out of the hose, the entire thing fell out. I barely even pushed on it so I'm thinking it would failed soon anyway. I ran down to the dealership and bought a new, updated style upper hose assembly for $100....but it's fixed and bled. Seems to run cooler and I have heat. Seemed to settle at 186 @ idle. I'll drive it tomorrow and see if it actually runs cooler.

 

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whilst bleeding turn the ignition key to position 2 and set A/C on max heat to fully open the heater waterway solenoids. Leave the ignition key in position 2 whilst bleeding.

 

Petrol D2s have no heater valves or solenoids. Just a steady flow of coolant through the heater core all year round regardless of what the HVAC setting is, or if the HVAC even works.