I did my first coolant flush today and followed the helms manuel. I drained the coolant, flushed the system with a hose and filled the radiator back up with coolant. Then, I started my car to let it warm up with the radiator cap off, the heater all the way up. I had it running for 10 min and the fans wouldnt come on. What am I doing worng here??

 

if u turn the heat on all the way up, you will be cooling down the coolant temperature, bc the heat from that(coolant)will be doing the interior heating.

U want to turn off the heat, and then watch it.

Cali

 

Just tried it with no heat and coolant started overflowing out of the top of the fillerneck after the car was running about one minute

 

Just tried it with radiator cap on. Fans didn't come on and steam started coming out of the radiator cap.

 

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I'm not sure if I bleed properly or not, I'm thinking I didn't...I didn't undo the block drain bolt beacuse I didn't think I really needed to, now I think thats what my problem is....guess I'll try again tomorrow...

 

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That's what I did and after about a minute the coolant was overflowing out of the filler neck on the radiator. The coolant started rising and boiling....I tried it several times with a break between and everytime it ended up overflowing before the fans even had a chance to come on.
Could it be doing this because I didn't drain the block??

 

What do U mean by block?

When I do it...I add the flush...run engine, turn off engine....drain radiator, flush with water.
Close the drain plug, fill er up about half way or so....run the car.....add coolant as necessary. ( proper mixture of course)

cali

Also: is ur thermostat opeing up? Why would coolant be runing out&gt;

 

There's a drain bolt on the block you are suppose to drain also. My coolant isn't running out, it's overflowing out of the top of the radiator.

I think what I thought wa sboiling coolant was just air trying to escape, I'm going to empty out the radiator some then try it again.