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Old 05-31-2009, 12:26 AM   #8
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Re: Low Coolant Light and Low Oil Pressure Light is on were are they located?

I really dont know if thats the correct way to do it or not. The bleeder screw on the 3.5 is on the radiator, so after doing some bleeding on level surfaces I did it with the front uphill too. Made sense to me to put the bleeder screw higher than the rest of the of the system. With the nose uphill I opened the bleeder until liquid start coming out.

I also drilled 2 small holes in the thermostat, in addition to the 4 small ones it already has. But I was getting tired of the overheating below freezing thing. So now my car actually warms up quite slow, especially if you start it up and take off moving, and runs a tad cooler than it used too.

I did some with the engine running, some with it off. Dont recall what I did with the overflow cap. I think I did some with it on, some with it off.

All in all, it took a little while to get all the air out. I would drive for a few days and sometimes my low coolant light would come on, and there would be no external leak, so Id top it off and keep going. Then after doing that 2-3 times it never came back on again. Seemed like it was self bleeding. Which makes sense because of the way it flows through the reservoir.
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