At 11:51 -0500 7/11/04, Harlyred1@aol.com wrote:
>Morning all,
>I was going to flush the coolant system yesterday. When I attempted to turn
>the drain tap handle it snapped off. Getting smarter as I age, I left the
>project alone for the day.
>This morning I removed the enire tap. I had NO fluid draining and the hole
>was filled with crap. As in a dark oily thick type of crap. I'm
>going to flush
>the system, and left a cleaner in the system for a few days while I wait for
>a new drain tap to arrive.
>Any ideas as to why I had no fluid draining and where the "crap" was from?
>The car sat for about 3 years before I got it.
My car was an occasional driver of the previous owner (lived in St
Paul, MN so only drove it in the summer). I try to drive it at least
once a week. It had the same sediment & the same broken tap.... :-( I
flushed it 3 times with a flush additive and then with a Prestone
"power flush" to get rid of most of it...
When I tried to poke around to get rid of the remaining "stuff" it
felt like it was at a real low point with not much space (i.e., easy
to get clogged). During one "power flush" I attached some clear
plastic hose to the valve & let it flush through the drain cock for
about 5 minutes.
John
John A. Wise, Ph.D., CPE
5483 W Potter Dr
Glendale, AZ 85308
(+1)(623)376-9632
Wise@erau.edu
1960 TR3A TS80422L
http://home.earthlink.net/~johnwise/TR3A.html
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