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Originally Posted by richtazz
That's the one I was trying to find. I've used that proceedure on many 3.1's and 3.4's and have had excellent luck doing it that way.
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Well since I wasn't going to drain/refill I just did the bleed portion.
Where I park at our apartments is on quite a steep-incline as is so I didn't really need to jack up the car.
One thing I noticed is that the bleed valve by the water pump sprays coolant intermittently: and having nothing to do w/the T-Stat opening/shutting - I kept testing the pre/post temps w/an IR thermometer at the coolant housing and it took about 10-15min. before it got up to the upper 180°'s - but until then, for about 5-20 seconds each, the bleed valve by the water pump started spewing coolant. How can that be if the T-stat is shut. There was NO pressure in the hose to the T-Stat...I don't believe it was erroneously-opening/shutting.
Anyways, once the T-stat obviously opened and the coolant spewed, I rescrewed the valves as soon as the T-stat shut. I'll let everyone know if the temps spike again.
Does the T-stat valve (is it truly a valve, looks like a normal bolt to me) need ot be completely-removed? It was so far out I didn't dare unscrew it anymore: SOME coolant dribbled out: should it be spewing as much as the water pump valve did?