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Old 14th May 2019, 19:33   #23
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Flushed the system today, took 3 proper flushes to get the system cleaned out, the dirt was draining in the dirt in there lol, for the last flush, managed to get almost all the water out of the system by blowing compressed air (not forcefully of course) in the bottom radiator hose which shoved out all of the muck inside there and the water was running clean through the radiator afterwards. When slowly refilling the reservoir for the last time with distilled water, added a coolant flush solution, and after the system was filled, started the engine with the reservoir cap off and gently filled the reservoir as the water was drawn into the system, and at this point, after the coolant flush solution ciruclated through the engine and returned to the expansion tank through the small upper hose connected to it, it formed some kind of dense clean "foam" to say so, I think that this is normal as the solution circulated through the system and started to do it's job, after the level was settled, closed the cap and right now I'm letting the engine cool for about an hour, will check when it's cool and post an update here as how the distilled water with the flush solution is looking in the expansion tank, and of course will top up with distilled water if necessary, the last flush will be done on saturday morning before replacing the thermostat.

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