Chevy v blocks actually have independentg water jackets on each side. The
recirculating water pump supplies water to each side, which you can see
where it bolts to the block. The water from the two sides of the block
comes back together through the intake manifold which you can also see by
looking at the raised passages in the front of the intake manifold leading
from the heads to the thermostat housing. When you pour water into the big
hose going to the water pump and you are on an incline or pour slowly you
might only fill one side. Unlikely though.

I have not heard of pouring antifreeze into the engine with the plugs out. I
just drain at all the plugs and I'm done. I understand the idea that the
antifreeze would make sure that any remaining water would not freeze.
However if I was doing it I would first drain at all the plugs. Unclog any
I did not get water out of with a piece of stiff wire. Then put the plugs
back in and finally add some antifreeze. The drain plugs are supposed to be
at the lowest points in the coling system. If the engine is level and all
the plugs are out I would expect practically all the antifreeze you pour in
to just run out the plugs.

How far north are you?


"werlax" wrote in message
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"Doug Meredith" wrote in message
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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.