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03-06-2006, 03:03 PM | #1 | ||
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Funny ( well not funny at the time) thing happened today, decided to change the radiator coolant before a trip to the Gold Coast next week.
Everything went well, UNTILL, when I was tightening the radiator's drain plug it decided to tear itself in half... YEp gotta love rubber drain pugs :gren: . Its sheared off right at the end of its thread. Luckilly its watertight and not leaking a drop. Just gotta wait till Tuesday to get the plug bored out n a new sucker in there. I'd like to thank the missus for her jinxxing me by saying "Don't break anything we go away in 6 days" comment prior to starting.... :yeees: Sure enough my mates at the local Ford dealer were rolling on the floor in tears when i rang em up n told em...... Seems the "new for AU and BA" rubber plugs arent as strong as the old plastic ones on E-series etc. |
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03-06-2006, 03:44 PM | #2 | ||
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Thanks for the heads up, personally i try to avoid using drain plugs were possible, always better to undo the bottom Radiator hose. Crummy plastic/rubber is not cool.
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03-06-2006, 04:20 PM | #3 | ||
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That's what I did last time ... dropped the lower radiator hose (also changed my hoses to cos they looked crap around the ends of them too)
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03-06-2006, 08:46 PM | #4 | ||
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Yes but it's not that easy to just drop the hoses on the AU's with the special bolt they use to put them on to start with, I dropped the drain plug on mine but you just have to be carefull.
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03-06-2006, 08:52 PM | #5 | |||
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03-06-2006, 08:54 PM | #6 | ||
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???? Special Bolt.
All i do is remove the splash guard and there you have it right there the bottom radiator hose on the left hand side of the radiator, with a standard worm drive hose clamp with a dust cap which can be undone with a phillips head screwdriver.
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03-06-2006, 09:26 PM | #7 | ||
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I thought they were a special designed head on them, not the ussual phillip's head screw, mine is anyway, and I'm not sure if they are just a dust cap or not, as I removed the drain plug not the hose for this reason.
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03-06-2006, 09:30 PM | #8 | ||
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They look odd but there just a dust cap, have a look at your top radiator hose, and it should come off with a moderate amount of force.
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03-06-2006, 10:06 PM | #9 | ||
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I'd go the lower hose myself as well, but the drain plug shouldn't be rubber. That's poor form I reckon, could you replace it with a plastic one?
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03-06-2006, 10:10 PM | #10 | ||
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I'm sure mine's a plastic drain plug???.
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04-06-2006, 08:40 AM | #11 | ||
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The cover on the hose clamp is what they use to do them up in the factory, it shears off when it reaches the right torque
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04-06-2006, 05:08 PM | #12 | |||
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04-06-2006, 10:34 AM | #13 | ||
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I don't want to offend but you really need to be a tool to snap it. It has got a phillips head end on it so knuckle heads can't sheer it off.
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04-06-2006, 12:54 PM | #14 | |||
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05-06-2006, 05:20 PM | #16 | ||
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Im not a knucklehead mate, they are a strengthened type of rubber, BUT after about 2-3yrs the heat of the engine bay starts the rubber rotting inside, then when it rots enough the next time it shears in half.
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