Anyone knows how to do a COMPLETE FLUSH of the coolant system?

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CTpro5

• Jun 25, 2005

• #1

Anyone knows the steps to do the coolant FLUSH?

 

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REMillers

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Mazda, RX8

• Jun 25, 2005

• #2

By complete you mean not just the radiator right? Way I did mine was buy a bottle flushing additive. Forget what name etc but it was about 10 bucks. You drained the old antifreeze, filled the radiator back up with about 3/4 water and added this addictive in.
Then started the car, reved to 2k for 5 mins then let it sit for 10. Turn off, drain and refill per normal directions (rev to 2k for 5 mins, 3k for 5 seconds, then let it cool off and verify the level is correct).<o =""></o>

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L8R

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02' Sport 20/Familia

• Jun 25, 2005

• #3

this may help? i dont think its a complete flush though

http://www.msprotege.com/members/LinuxRacr/coolant_procedure.jpg

 

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Action Jackson

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• Jun 25, 2005

• #4

Did you use soft (demineralized) water to help with the flush?

 

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CTpro5

• Jun 25, 2005

• #5

I just brought 3 gallons of Distilled water, plan to use that to flush the system.

Action Jackson said:

Did you use soft (demineralized) water to help with the flush?

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Mazdamia

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2003 Mazda Protege5

• Jun 25, 2005

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REMillers said:

By complete you mean not just the radiator right? Way I did mine was buy a bottle flushing additive. Forget what name etc but it was about 10 bucks. You drained the old antifreeze, filled the radiator back up with about 3/4 water and added this addictive in.
Then started the car, reved to 2k for 5 mins then let it sit for 10. Turn off, drain and refill per normal directions (rev to 2k for 5 mins, 3k for 5 seconds, then let it cool off and verify the level is correct).<o =""></o>

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Then you brought both fluids to your local oil change place for recycling, right?

 

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REMillers

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Mazda, RX8

• Jun 25, 2005

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Mazdamia said:

Then you brought both fluids to your local oil change place for recycling, right?

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Gas station.

 

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Brian MP5T

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• Jun 26, 2005

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L8R said:

this may help? i dont think its a complete flush though

http://www.msprotege.com/members/LinuxRacr/coolant_procedure.jpg

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Holy Time Consuming...

 

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toucci

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'03.5 Proteg 5

• Jun 26, 2005

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I used a garden hose to flush it. I figure the impurities in the droplets left in the system will be extremely diluted when it's refilled with antifreeze and distilled water.

 

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iluvmacs

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2003 Protege ES

• Jun 26, 2005

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Agreed. One of the oldest procedures to clean the coolant system is to drain what you can, fill the radiator with a garden hose and run the engine like that. One end of the loop will drain while the other end is continuously filled.

Filling it back up is really easy too. You know the capacity of the whole system (it's in the manual), so put half the capacity in when you're done (you won't be able to get all of the hose water out).