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MG MGF Technical - Bleeding Coolant

Weird how it all works out
turns out that my Rad was perforated!!
and pretty rotten to boot, whereas all the panelwork around it was like new!

SO I am looking at a £150 bill for a new one courtesy of Mike Satur and the dark forces. (bigger capacity)
Great!

SO for the benefit of everybody is there an archive or webpage complete with piccies of how to bleed the bleeder?

Also I understand that you have to get weird OAT antifreeze for these motors

Cheers



Neil

Hi Neil,

Rob's site to the rescue, as usual:

http://www.mgf.ultimatemg.com/hgf_pages/coolant_bleed_procedure.htm
Dave Livingstone

You can use OAT antifreeze (not sure what Mike is recommending for his radiator) - but it is not obligatory. If you plan to change to OAT you MUST flush all traces of the old antifreeze out of the car (you'd have used a Unipart methanol based coolant in the past).

The advantage of OAT is its longer service life - meaning that it doesn't need to be changed as frequently, and hence less likely that a grease monkey can introduce air locks into the system...
Rob Bell

Thanks guys
Neil

Hi Neil,
Tell me just what is OAT antifreeze. Any antifreeze I buy contains inhibitor. Over to you.
Thanks (a very dim CHRIS)
chris

None OAT content is ethylene glycol based anti-freeze containing no methanol with non-phosphate corrosion inhibitors.

OAT is Organic Acid Technology and content is Organic Acid corrosion inhibitors.

Dead easy, isn't it ? (lol)
:-/



Dieter K.

This thread was discussed between 09/03/2004 and 10/03/2004

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