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Old Dec 21, 2004 | 04:13 PM
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Bleeding Lt1 cooling system

do i bleed the system with the car running or do i bleed the system with the car off
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Old Dec 21, 2004 | 04:17 PM
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Put coolant in. Start car. Unscrew the bleeder screw near the thermostat housing. Wait ti'll fluid shoots out, close bleeder screw. Done.
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Old Dec 21, 2004 | 07:59 PM
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one important thing, wait till the coolant is up to temperature so the thermostat is open
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Old Dec 21, 2004 | 08:12 PM
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Don't you have to bleed both screws? Or is one acceptable?
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Old Dec 21, 2004 | 08:14 PM
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Should be only one screw...... Never heard of a second bleeder screw.
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 09:06 AM
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Originally posted by pasky
Should be only one screw...... Never heard of a second bleeder screw.
My '95 has two bleeder screws and have read some posts about bleeding both screws on CZ28.
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 09:52 AM
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It is best to get one of these: http://www.geocities.com/cplca/FreaseBleeder.html

For that low of a price it does an excellent job of of not getting any coolant on the opti.
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 03:03 PM
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Originally posted by ShiftyCapone
My '95 has two bleeder screws and have read some posts about bleeding both screws on CZ28.
Weird! Where is the second screw? I only have one near my thermostat housing. I have a 95.
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 04:12 PM
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Weird! Where is the second screw? I only have one near my thermostat housing. I have a 95.
I will have to dig up a pic. The car is in storage so I can't get to it easily. I only noticed that there were two screws when I bled the system a summer ago. There were two bleeder valves around the thermostat (been while and can't even remember where they are) that are about a few inches apart from each other. Apparently you can bleed one effectivly or tyou can do a two step process. I didn't really look into it much past that but I can see I need to now
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 04:25 PM
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Here is a pic. You can see the one bleeder screw in the line there. I am not sure if people include this in their swaps. If they do then they have 2 bleeders.
Attached Thumbnails Bleeding Lt1 cooling system-p1010043a.jpg  
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 04:40 PM
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yea, that crap ain't on my car. The waterpump itself has a bleeder, only one I use.
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 08:54 PM
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Re: Bleeding Lt1 cooling system

I only found one bleeder by thermostat( is there One are Two bleeders ?) Help
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