Mine worked for me. It definitely beats the alternative of paying someone a lot of money to do it for me. Good price for as often as it will be needed too. I hadn’t heard of the Fluid Evacuator from John Dow.
Airlift definitely is faster, these cars like to trap air in the heater core. You can bleed them manually on ramps but it takes a bit of time.
Hook up a drain hose to the bleeder fitting on the radiator and leave it in place. When the time comes to do this again, you can pull a few push pins from thr right wheel well liner, move it aside, reach in and open the drain (all without having to remove the belly pan).
I was gonna suggest this, you need a 3/8 hose. The only reason I stopped is that at least on my PP radiator, it seems like you end up making a bit of a mess when you open the drain too far. Would suck to clean without proper access to the area if that's something of concern.
I just used a turkey baster and sucked all the coolant out, emptying into a clean container. Pinched off the hoses, installed, then refilled. That ugly jellybean had to go.
This thread was actually not about changing the expansion tank, but solely about the easiset way to drain the system.
It is not easily accessible, if at all. There's no easy way to do it with belly pan in place and not make a f&%$ing mess.
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Complete waste and an old wives tale. This does absolutely nothing. Coolant is circulating through the heater core all the time. Your temp control is through the mixing doors under the dash. Nothing controls or otherwise limits the flow through that system at any time. Plus, this system is completely designed to "burp" itself as soon as it's circulating, and it does quite a good job at it. The only thing running the heat does is make you hot.
