Flushing engine.

[General Lee]

Hi,

Just planted my 1.4 sr in and have a mix match of pipes and parts, just wanted to flush all the pipes and rad through, is it just a simple case of stick a hose into the inlet water pipe (Metal pipe attchached to gearbox) and watch it come out of bottom rad pipe.

Thanks
Nath

[craig green]

Yes, but you could get better results with the thermostat out & likewise the water pump removed too, just to give full flow about the block/head etc.

[General Lee]

Yes, but you could get better results with the thermostat out & likewise the water pump removed too, just to give full flow about the block/head etc.

Great thanks, just what i needed to hear.

[novalicous]

when i flush and engine i usaly remove top and bottom hoses and stick a hose pipe in there with the engine running

a good idea is to remove both pipes from the heater matrix and give that a flush its surprising how much crap they can hold

and i usaly remove the rad to flush it

[Stuart]

dont forget to reverse flush

[novalicous]

dont forget to reverse flush eh? :confused:

[Adam]

Force water through the other way.
i.e. do it from rad bottom hose out the thermostat hole

And then thermostat hole to the bottom hose

[novalicous]

o right never heard it called that lol

i flush everything out when i do it

made my heaters 500% better :d