On sunday i installed my Samco Hoses (minus power steering) into my car.
As i did not know what coolant was used previously i did a flush, well attempted to by putting the garden hose up the bottem radiator pipe which feeds in the engine for about half a minute. Not much came out but i stopped not wanting to cook the engine.. i then drained the radiator, took off the old hoses and put on my new hoses which now look like this
i had purchased a repco coolant - anti freeze/ anti boil and anti corrosion. they said its made by penrite so i thought hey why not so i got it. may be regretting it now. when i added it in it only tool 3.5L when its meant to take 6.3L so i thought i mustn't've flushed properly but this coolant didnt say anything about not to add to others so i proceeded to thorroughly bleed the system. as i have a emanage ultimate i can datalog and get information from it and have noticed changed since. So its really cold down here lately averaging around 10 degrees during the day so temp do not play issue. this data is from a run through a bendy road and giving it a bit as u can see from the red line which is rpm. the light blue line is the coolant temp.
on this one you can see it has subtle changes ranging from 86 degrees to 89.
the one below here is after i did the hose swap. this is a shorter sample of data but on the same scale.
this is from city driving but still cold.
as you can see the coolant temps range higher up and are more zig zaggy to say. they range from 90 to 94.
is this ok?
or should i do another flush? orr better coolant?? i only got this one cos it had anti corrosion as well. how do i do it properly without attacking the drain points on the block.
i searched it and did it how bennoz said with the garden hose but didnt seem to get it out.
the radiator has had an overhaul as well so its not that.
thank you
