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Subject:Re: Air in the system
From:Joachim Preiss
Date:Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:17:20 -0700

Why do it the easy way if you can have it more complicated? It's much more of
an adventure to raise the front of the car 40cm above the back, then climb
into the driver's seat and rev the engine at 2500RPM while waiting for the
coolant to shoot out the bleeder. If I had a pool I'd submerge the van in
coolant up to the steering wheel, then open all the hoses and let the air
bubbles escape ... and at the same time I can check where my propane is
leaking out.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:39:15 -0400 wb6otg <wb6otg@INTREX.NET> wrote:

> I have posted this solution a time or two also,
> but no one seem to want to do it this way.
>
> Bill
>
> ---------------------------
>  I don't know if anyone remembers this but
> awhile back I posted a solution
>  to filling the radiator from the bleeder hole
> with the engine cold. You
>  use a plastic juice jug and a 3 feet length of
> aquarium air line.
>  Puncture the bottom of the juice jug so the
> hole will fit the air line
>  snugly. Put the other end in the radiator
> bleed hole. Fill the jug with
>  premix fluid and fill till fluid comes out the
> bleed hole. You won't
>  believe how fast and easy this method is. It
> is also fool proof. Hope
>  everyone gets it this time. Aloha, Ed Sato
>