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Default Winterize - Antifreeze

"Doug Meredith" wrote in message ...
If you pour it into the top of thebig hose that comes of the water pump,
you should see it come out the drains in the block. The 2 smaller hoses
go to the exhaust manifolds, and you should see it coming out of those
drain plugs too. The last plug should be on the bottom of your oil
cooler. There is a 4th line on the stat housing that runs to that. It
should be about the same size or a bit bigger than the hoses going to the
exhaust. You should see antifreeze coming from the bottom of that cooler
too. When you removed these plugs, you should have gotten water from all
of them. If you didn't, take a coat hanger and fish around in the hole
till water or antifreeze comes out. Then replace all the plugs, and fill
up everything.

Thanks for the info. I figured out that I can get antifreeze to come
out of nearly all the drains by pouring into 3 of the hoses. The
fourth hose drains to the lower unit. I think there is still one
drain that hasn't seen any antifreeze come out of it. I'll have to
check which one it is exactly, but is this just a matter of closing up
one of them to get to this last drain? Does one hose feed two areas
in the block? That was the case with the hose leading to the
water/fuel seperator area. There were two drains along that route.
Sorry for being so vague, but I'm still figuring out which hose goes
to which drain and exactly what they all are.