[Bala]

What a pain it was to flush and change the coolant. The hoses refused to come out and I didn't want to fight them too much. But did get the front radiator return hose out on the front side and drained. It didn't look good and didn't look bad either. Tried Napa etc but no one has them. Dealer didn't either. So bought new clamps and tightened it as mush as I could and looks like no leak.

Due to the inability to drain the whole system this is what I did. Removing the drain plug dumped about 1.5 gl. Removing the radiator return hose dumped another gallon. So put the hose and the plug back, filled in about 2 gal of distilled water, ran the engine for a minute, drained, repeated for 5 cycles. For the last cycle the liquid came out very very light green. Yes, it was green. Looks like the PO had used regular coolant and I had added more Prestone. So, glad I did what I did.

In the end I put in about 10 gl of distilled water, removed about 13.25 gl out.

Existing capacity - 6 gl
Added dist water - 10 gl
Drained - 13.25 gl
Left in system at the end 2.75 gl
Added new coolant (unmixed) 2.5 gl
Current capacity in system - 5.25

Tank seems full. So have to run the engine for a while tomorrow and see if it settles and needs more. The book says the 3.2 has a capacity of 6.2 gls. Think there is some air in the system.

You think flushing and draining 5 times is good enough? I ain't doing this for another 5 years!!