Cooling System Filling
- After draining the system, close the drain screw on the radiator.
Remove the vent screw (1) on the radiator and turn in one thread again.
- Fill the coolant system.
Top up coolant up to the bottom line of the bleed nozzle on the coolant surge tank (1).
When the coolant has stopped dropping top up the coolant until the bottom line of the down pipe hole (black arrow).
- Start the engine and switch the air conditioning off.
- Warm up the engine.
- Vent cooling system.
Warm up the engine until the coolant fan is being switched ON.
Kick the accelerator pedal 3 times - thereby the engine speed should not exceed 2.500 RPM.
- After removing the heater core, let the engine run for further 2 minutes at 2.000-2500 RPM.
- Switch the engine off and let the engine cool down.
Check coolant level and correct the coolant to welding area (1) if necessary.
- After a test drive let the engine cool down and check the coolant level again. Adjust the coolant level to welding area (1) if necessary.
Close vent screw when coolant flows out on the loosen vent screw.
After Engine Start top up coolant immediately until the bottom line of the down pipe hole (black arrow) and close cap.
After removing the heater core (located in passenger room) the following additional work has to be done:
Kick the accelerator pedal 3 times immediately - thereby the engine speed should not exceed 2500 RPM.
After removing the heater core (located in passenger room) the following additional work has to be done.