Thread: TD5 bottom rad. hose??

fill from the expansion tank til coolant comes out of the bleed hole in the top hose.

I'm about to change my coolant tonight also so this thread is very timely although I have no clue what i'm doing. It's a '99 TD5 I have and am hoping this plug on the bottom of the radiator hose is easily identifyable. Also how big a bucket am I going to need to catch the contents and can I simply drain and refill with coolant. Is flushing advisable and if so how do you flush?

ALL help appreciated thanks.

Take the plastic cover off the bottom then there is a drain plug in a steel hose.

8 litres of coolact will fix. An OAT type Nulon Red is available at Supercheap.

Cheers
Piddler

Originally Posted by MickG

I'm about to change my coolant tonight also so this thread is very timely although I have no clue what i'm doing. It's a '99 TD5 I have and am hoping this plug on the bottom of the radiator hose is easily identifyable. Also how big a bucket am I going to need to catch the contents and can I simply drain and refill with coolant. Is flushing advisable and if so how do you flush?

ALL help appreciated thanks.

well I'm hoping the bleed plug in the bottom hose on the drivers side will allow it to drain.You have to refill from the expansion tank and remove the bleed plug from the top hose, fill till coolant runs out of it.Supposedly you have to flush the hell out of the system in case you dont have OAT coolant plus you cant mix them regardless. But dont follow my advice as I have no idea what I'm doing either, probably be 2 cooked TD5s later in the week.

Originally Posted by crump

well I'm hoping the bleed plug in the bottom hose on the drivers side will allow it to drain.You have to refill from the expansion tank and remove the bleed plug from the top hose, fill till coolant runs out of it.Supposedly you have to flush the hell out of the system in case you dont have OAT coolant plus you cant mix them regardless. But dont follow my advice as I have no idea what I'm doing either, probably be 2 cooked TD5s later in the week.

tee hee, I quoted myself. If you remove the bleed screw in the bottom hose it seems to drain all the coolant, I got the poos and removed the intercooler pipe thingo and dropped the bottom hose anyway and no more coolant came out.To flush it I'm at the moment just got the hose in the expansion tank on gently, and just gona let it run for an hour, stuff filling and driving around and refilling and driving around, rerefilling and driving around and rererefilling and driving around.Going to buy some distilled water tomorrow and mix up the red cordial and fill it up and try and get rid of the multiple airlocks I know I've got coming.

Originally Posted by crump

tee hee, I quoted myself. If you remove the bleed screw in the bottom hose it seems to drain all the coolant, I got the poos and removed the intercooler pipe thingo and dropped the bottom hose anyway and no more coolant came out.To flush it I'm at the moment just got the hose in the expansion tank on gently, and just gona let it run for an hour, stuff filling and driving around and refilling and driving around, rerefilling and driving around and rererefilling and driving around.Going to buy some distilled water tomorrow and mix up the red cordial and fill it up and try and get rid of the multiple airlocks I know I've got coming.

Time will tell but all seemed very straight forward once I found the plug. Dropped out the existing pink coolant then flushed with water and drained again. Then filled with water and run until warm, then dropped and replaced with coolant. Probably could have flushed a few more times but hopefully all will be okay. Put some green pre mixed coolant in which said it was fine for diesels so will see how I go.

Cheers for the help, Mick

If you have not finished the job yet throw away the spring hose clips as they are rubbish, they will let the hoses leak, use proper screw type hose clips.
Alan

Originally Posted by MickG

Put some green pre mixed coolant in which said it was fine for diesels so will see how I go.

Cheers for the help, Mick

i don't read all the td5 posts but i'm sure the general agreement is that green coolant was not suitable for td5, red only, could be wrong though