Want to change out the coolant in our '03 Focus before winter. I've
found some postings that say it's a simple drain/fill operation, others
talk about extreme difficulty getting air purged and subsequent random
overheating.
Any Focus owners (Dan?) done this?
Allan
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1983 300D
1979 300SD
Yup.
Pretty straightforward as far as I found. Drain the radiator from the bottom
drain (plastic - ugh! flush with clear water several times and then refill with
the proper Ford gold coolant.
I never had a problem with air pockets or overheating. This has been done on
both of my Focuses by
Good to hear, thanks. Off to the garage
BTW I'm going to use G-05 for the refill, I think it's Ford approved and
nice to only have to stock one type for the MB and Ford.
Allan
Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com writes:
Yup.
Pretty straightforward as far as I found. Drain the radiator from
Glad to be of assistance.
I used the Ford stuff because I had a couple of gallons left over from my
former Crown Vic.
Dan
On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Good to hear, thanks. Off to the garage
BTW I'm going to use G-05 for the refill, I think it's Ford approved and
Well nothing is ever *easy* is it?
I drained the system, filled with water to flush, and warmed up the
engine. Once it had reached operating temp I turned it off and
discovered that the thermostat gasket leaks under pressure. That would
explain the slow coolant loss I've observed on this car in
Go with new.
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On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Well nothing is ever *easy* is it?
I drained the system, filled with water to flush, and warmed up the
engine. Once it had reached operating temp I turned it off and
discovered that
A bit of reaseach indicates that this plastic water outlet/thermostat
housing is prone to cracking/leaking on the Ford Zetec. So I'm betting
that's my problem, for a $50 part I'm not going to risk just changing
the gasket.
Allan
Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu writes:
Well nothing is ever
I change thermostats every other coolant change.
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Charleston SC
'95 E300
'87 300TD
Peter Hertzing phertz...@gmail.com wrote:
Go with new.
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On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Well nothing is ever *easy* is it?
I drained
Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu writes:
A bit of reaseach indicates that this plastic water outlet/thermostat
housing is prone to cracking/leaking on the Ford Zetec. So I'm betting
that's my problem, for a $50 part I'm not going to risk just changing
the gasket.
I ordered this
I can never keep the engines straight on these things. Both of mine have the
2.3 liter 4. Is that the Zetec, or is it the 2.0 liter?
Dan
On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu writes:
A bit of reaseach indicates that this plastic water
Mine is a 2003 SE (wagon) which has the 2.0 Zetec DOHC.
Allan
Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com writes:
I can never keep the engines straight on these things. Both of mine have the
2.3 liter 4. Is that the Zetec, or is it the 2.0 liter?
Dan
On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Interesting - I went in and looked at the part for both my 2004 and 2005 (both
2.3l engine) and it looks identical but it's a different vendor and a heck of a
lot more expensive.
Mine are a 2004 ZTW wagon and a 2005 ZX5.
Maybe they redesigned it if they were having problems?
Dan
On Aug 19,
According to wikipedia in 2004 Ford switched over to design based on the
Mazda MZR engine for its I4 engines. These were given the name Duratec
and were made with varying displacements including the 2.3.
The Zetec line I think was never bigger than a 2.0l except the diesel
Zetec TDCi went up to
One other thing I noticed... when you drain the system from the radiator
petcock, you get about 1 gallon out; the cooling system capacity is 6
quarts, so there's still 2 quarts left in there somewhere.
Meaning if you want to do a really complete change of coolant, you'll
need to do a few
That's what I did. I usually drain as completely as possible, fill with tap
water, drive for a short while with the heater on, cool, drain and refill
again, drive, cool and drain.
Sort of a lather, rinse, repeat thing.
I'll also refill with straight AF and check the concentration, since I
Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com writes:
I'll also refill with straight AF and check the concentration, since I
know there will be a fair amount of water left in the system.
Yeah that is my approach as well. Once I feel that there is more or
less straight water left in the system, I'll add half
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