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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 05:48 PM
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Default Removing Antifreeze without flush

I recently lent my brother my car to take a trip out of town and before he took it I told him to inspect the fluid levels... The retard filled the antifreeze all the way to the max line instead of filling it between the min and max level ... Money is tight right now so I was wondering if there was a way to remove some of the fluid without draining and flushing out the system?
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 06:41 PM
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A turkey baster will draw out the excess fluid.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 06:43 PM
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You can also easily remove the coolant overflow bottle. It will slide up and out of the bracket.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 07:20 PM
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Default Re: Removing Antifreeze without flush

or just use the radiator drain plug or just leave it in there wtf? the worse that could happen is it overflows
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 07:22 PM
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Default Re: Removing Antifreeze without flush

Thanks dogginator but I'm thinkin of just taking Toyomatt's advice, seems like a lot less work... Thanks a lot
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 07:45 PM
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Default Re: Removing Antifreeze without flush

Originally Posted by Dogginator
You can also easily remove the coolant overflow bottle. It will slide up and out of the bracket.
7thgen coolant overflow bottle is held on by 2 10mm bolts. Still, really easy to take off, I've done it plenty of times.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 08:24 AM
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Default Re: Removing Antifreeze without flush

i just did the same thing but you can't fit a turky baster in the overflow tank i just bought a siphon pump from wal-mart for 3 bucks it works perfect.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 09:28 AM
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That's ironic!!! I just got back from wal mart and bought the same thing... It worked! Thanks for all the help guys... I greatly appreciate it.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:56 AM
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You could just leave it alone... I highly doubt you're going to push coolant from the max line out the top of the overflow.
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