[DML] Re: Removing Heater Core Supply Line

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep - your pipe is still sitting here on the shelf...  and keep my 
plastic nipples out of it....

Now your talking though - how did you route the radiator bleeder to 
the heater core (i.e. is there an added tee somewhere? did you use a 
valve?)? That sounds like one of those "why didn't they think of 
that" ideas. I generally get the cooling system loaded up, pressurize 
and bleed it, then crawl under the front of the car, pull that hose 
off, spit out the coolant I get in my face, and hook it back up. It's 
occurred to me to put a bleeder valve there somewhere, but I never 
have.

Dave Swingle

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> 
wrote:
 Re-routing the radiator bleed line uphill to my
> heater core seems to be the trick (remember: I threw away the metal
> pipe section from the radiator where it originally connected. If I'm
> not mistaken I gave it to you...). Never realized how prone the 
stock
> configuration was to trap air, even with a vaunted self bleeder, 
until
> I helped two other owners before/after Pigeon Forge refill their
> systems. Radiator simply would not bleed unless you cracked that 
hose
> -- great fun with an OEM plastic nipple.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939





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