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wheres the drain???? #1332855 07/12/05 03:39 PM
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 34 J jdfet_dup1 OP New CEG\'er
OP jdfet_dup1 New CEG\'er J Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 34	Hi, I cant seem to find anything on how to drain and flush the radiator. The car is a 96, 2.0, 52k, is there a 'prefered' brand of coolant to use? Thank you in advance.

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332856 07/12/05 03:53 PM
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,345 Virginia, USA T Tony2005 Addicted CEG\'er
Tony2005 Addicted CEG\'er T Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,345 Virginia, USA	Welcome to CEG. Try searches for great info. I use Prestone. For "how to", go to "how tos" in the FAQ, mod, how to http://www.contour.org/mods/mods.php?s=howto&displayid=44 "Always do the cheap and easy ones first." 1996 V6 ATX 96K miles

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332857 07/12/05 03:58 PM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas 2 2X95SEs_dup1 Veteran CEG\'er
2X95SEs_dup1 Veteran CEG\'er 2 Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 770 Houston, Texas	The drain is on the lower right side of the radiator behind a part of the frame. It's plastic with a screw head on it so be nice to it. There are little keepers on it that prevent it from coming out all the way. It may be easier to remove the lower radiator hose to drain it. I've been running the orange Dex-cool since my water pump cratered over 6 years ago. Make sure you flush out all the old coolant.

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332858 07/12/05 04:28 PM
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Cullman, Alabama U unknown_eyes Newbie
unknown_eyes Newbie U Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Cullman, Alabama	Yeah, in my opinion it is easier to remove the lower hose. 1999 Mercury Mystique GS 2.0 4-cylinder Automatic

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332859 07/14/05 01:13 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 183 NW New Jersey R richs_dup1 CEG\'er
richs_dup1 CEG\'er R Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 183 NW New Jersey	I agee, remove the lower hose. I put a new clamp on. On the V6 it is easier to unscrew the drain. Rich S 1998 SVT 1995 Contour 2.5 MTX 215K miles Son's car(dead and buried) 1997 Contour 2.0 ATX 1998 Contour 2.5 ATX 2004 Tauras Wagon 3.0 Duratec

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332860 07/14/05 05:24 PM
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 34 J jdfet_dup1 OP New CEG\'er
OP jdfet_dup1 New CEG\'er J Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 34	Ive got the 4 cyl and seemed alot easier to just take the drain plug/screw all the way out. Everything is so dang cramed in there. What the heck was ford thinking??? Man just reading through the various problems in this forum kinda freaks me out. Sounds like these cars had tons of issues! Thanx for the help though, it went pretty smoothly.. Why was the crap in the radiator bottle brown??

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332861 07/14/05 06:33 PM
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,345 Virginia, USA T Tony2005 Addicted CEG\'er
Tony2005 Addicted CEG\'er T Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,345 Virginia, USA	Originally posted by jdfet: Why was the crap in the radiator bottle brown?? Maybe rust. "Always do the cheap and easy ones first." 1996 V6 ATX 96K miles

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332862 07/14/05 06:59 PM
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 39 R rjclark New CEG\'er
rjclark New CEG\'er R Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 39	Originally posted by Tony2005: Originally posted by jdfet: Why was the crap in the radiator bottle brown?? Maybe rust. Maybe Oil?

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332863 07/14/05 09:43 PM
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 453 ohio 9 98Ford2L CEG\'er
98Ford2L CEG\'er 9 Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 453 ohio	I didn't know that the plug had the stoppers when I drained mine, and it was ridiculous until I finally figured out how to get it all the way out. I was shooting coolant all over everything, not in a stream at all, it was more sprinkler type accuracy. Once I got the plug out it wasn't too bad though. And about the tank being brown, mine was pretty dirty too, seemed to be a sort of dirt/slime who knows what. It's kinda hard to clean the coolant tank though, it has too many inner compartments.

Re: wheres the drain???? #1332864 07/19/05 09:05 PM
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 34 J jdfet_dup1 OP New CEG\'er
OP jdfet_dup1 New CEG\'er J Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 34	I tell you what man....if this thing has oil in it with only 52k on it I am going to have the worlds biggest flower box in my yard!!! After I blow it up! That or I'll just drain all the fluids out and stand on the accelerator! Again, just by the things that I have read, sounds like I'm lucky to have 52k on it. Sheeeesh.

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