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Re: Engine Coolant Drain Plug

To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Engine Coolant Drain Plug
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:48:11 -0700
One way to clear out the blockage would be to get one of those "coolant
flushing kits" which includes a capped "tee" fitting that you splice into
the heater hose, and is threaded for a garden hose. Full pressure from the
hose should loosen things up. At least it should find the "weak points' of
the system...


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 9/11/05 3:21 PM, Chad Cooper at mgb72@airmail.net wrote:

> Leave the plug out and warm up the car.  See if it will blow out the
> stuff on it's own.  I would reccomend pressurising the system with a
> cooling system pressure tester, but you may not have one.
> 
> Randy Widman wrote:
> 
>> I got the drain plug out and no coolant came out at all. So I assume it's
>> plugged up. I poked around in the hole with a wire bent 90 degrees like
>> Kelvin
>> Dodd suggested on an archive posting and got what looked like a small amount
>> of greasy dirt out but I can't seem to figure out where the plugged up area
>> is. Anyone have any suggestions I can try? To clarify that I took the correct
>> plug out, it is the one just in front of the oil sending line.
>> 
>> TIA for your ideas.
>> 
>> Randy Widman
>> 79




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