You can drain the driver's side of the block by pulling the block heater.
How much coolant in the block?
I'm flushing the cooling system and the block plugs absolutely, positively, will not come out with the tools I have at hand. Yes, I could get an impact wrench and coax them out but I don't have one and the pressures of life are such that I need to get this done today. The clean flush water will just have to stay in the system until the next flush, when I'll borrow an impact in advance.
So I want to add coolant and need to know exactly how much water remains in the block (7.3 L) after the system has been otherwise completely drained. THANKS!!
So I want to add coolant and need to know exactly how much water remains in the block (7.3 L) after the system has been otherwise completely drained. THANKS!!
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I always pull the lower radiator hose and flush all that brown crud out of the bottom of the radiator & the block with the garden hose....then run a can of radiator flush I get from My Case/IH ag tractor dealer thru the whole cooling system and then flush everything all over again. It makes quite a mess so I try to do it on warm days.....even if it's January 1st....
Including the quart or two in the degas bottle I thought I put between 28 and 30 quarts in My PSD last time I flushed it. My waterpump is on "borrowed time" already, over 156,000 miles and the factory pump started leaking bad at only 138,000 miles....so sometime this summer My truck gets a waterpump, new degas bottle, flushed & refilled. It got all new hoses last flush & refill about 70,000 ago.
Including the quart or two in the degas bottle I thought I put between 28 and 30 quarts in My PSD last time I flushed it. My waterpump is on "borrowed time" already, over 156,000 miles and the factory pump started leaking bad at only 138,000 miles....so sometime this summer My truck gets a waterpump, new degas bottle, flushed & refilled. It got all new hoses last flush & refill about 70,000 ago.
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Sorry you only got 156k miles on the factory pump. Cheap Ford junk! ;->
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The 156K is on the Ford rebuild.....factory pump leaked like a sieve at 137,800 miles and was replaced. Next pump is a brand new International. Parts Guy when I picked the pump on the truck up now said about one in three Ford rebuilds didn't last a week. Real comforting thought about something I just spent over $300 on! That's what they cost back in about '99.
Sorry you only got 156k miles on the factory pump. Cheap Ford junk! ;->
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The 156K is on the Ford rebuild.....factory pump leaked like a sieve at 137,800 miles and was replaced. Next pump is a brand new International. Parts Guy when I picked the pump on the truck up now said about one in three Ford rebuilds didn't last a week. Real comforting thought about something I just spent over $300 on! That's what they cost back in about '99.
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