Black Sun 5.0
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The Fluidyne and the DCC are good together, but even with this setup the DCC would run the fan on the highway before I put the deflector on.
70_Nitrous_Eater said:1st step is to pull off the thermostat housing and remove the thermostat. Put the housing back on in a temporary mannor.
Then pull off one of the rad hoses. They sell a fancy gadget that allows you to conect a garden hose to your rad hose...but I have always just stuffed the garden hose about 1ft down the rad hose and then wrapped it up tight with a rag to prevent as much leaking as possible.
The idea is to flush the system with water, but also do it so that the water is flowing throught the system in the opposite direction as the coolant flows. This helps to make sure all of the gunk is removed.
Then just turn on the hose and wait until you get nice clean water spewing out the other end.
HISSIN50 said:yep, the deflector is a good thing. It helps create a low pressure area behind the radiator so that the air that has moved across it has a place to want to go. This allows more air to want to be pulled across the radiator.
I just got done doing a kind of custom one to replace the wavey thing that was there before.
Good luck.
I will send a pic later on.vristang said:JT
I am curious. Did you buy a stock unit or fab one? If fab what material and thickness?
I have been planning to do this for a while now, but never really came up with a decent design.
Sorry for getting off topic guys.
jaymac said:this is crap. tonight the car is going to 210* just sitting at the bank drive-thru and then stoplights, then only goes down to 195* driving around town.
I'm going to Autozone right now and buying a water pump, gasket, T stat gasket, system flush, and new coolant.
I definitely need to backflush the system.
Should I/do I need to drill a hole in the T-stat? Anyone w/ suggestions/instructions on that??
HISSIN50 said:a hole in the stat (a giggle hole as it is sometimes called) is to allow air to purge from inside the system when the stat is closed.
HISSIN50 said:Here we go again. I had a phoenetic or finger glitch earlier. It is Jiggle, not giggle. And in the case of drilling it yourself, I called it a 'jiggle hole' since you are drilling it yourself (and not inserting a ball inside a cage on the rim). But when they come on new stats, they are jiggle balls or jiggle valves (since they have a ball in there that rattles around). I had that part right atleast, but wanted to insert the name of the actual part in case anyone ever quoted me.
Ahh, I just woke up from a nap and see what I messed up earlier. I am afraid to read more threads I replied on already.