Thread: V8 D2 won't take 12.5L of coolant

Well, nice use of a Pulp Fiction line.
2nd, same as the auto a simple drain doesn't remove all the fluid, rest of it is in the lines.
Not sure on the V8 but on the Td5 I know you can connect up a hose somewhere and basically run it until the water ain't pink.
Perhaps give the search function a work out.

Now lets start at the basics, is the car running when your trying to fill up the coolant?
How much do you guess is already in there?

Is there an air lock in the system?

What method/s have you tried so far?

Removed filler cap and bleed screw on radiator top hose.
Removed all 3 hoses from thermostat.
So radiator drained through bottom hose, jacket and heater drained through water pump hose (should be close to the lowest point, right?)
Jammed hose into top radiator and water pump hoses and flushed 'til clear.
Re-fittted hoses, raised reservoir and filled until it flowed from bleed hole.
Re-fitted bleed screw.
Topped off reservoir.
Total = 4L!

Started her up, cap still off. No more coolant pulled through jacket or radiator.
Purged through bleed screw, good flow.

Shut her down.
Re-bled through screw.

Began having horrendous visions of engine rebuild.

When you talk about the "jacket", are you talking about the two block drain plugs, one either side of the engine block? If those weren't undone, that'd probably account for a couple of litres, but not 8!

Have a hunt on here for Blknight.aus's how to on doing a coolant refill using a soft drink bottle.

Sorry, jacket = water jacket = block. No, didn't drain through the plugs but like you I'd guess that'd account for a litre or 2 at best.

I have LPG so there is a coolant line tapped into the heater hoses which runs around the back of the manifold, around to the LPG condenser. That's the highest point in the system so I slackened off a clamp over there and got pink rather than red coolant.

So I assume the block and heater weren't drained properly.

Thinking I should raise the rear of the vehicle and try draining again through the water pump hose at the thermostat. I'll try to collect that and see how much and what colour I get.

Non-stop fun these trucks!

I have drained my V8 a couple of times and the best I have ever got back in was 6litres. Your 4 liters is not uncommon. The engine holds a fair bit, as does the heater circuit.

If its bleeding through to bleed the you will be fine

Yeah, that seems to be about the size of it. Thanks for the moral support.

No-one's accounted for heater core either!