Morning all:

I noticed that my cooling system needs a flush when I removed the hoses to change the vc gasket yesterday. Is there anything I can add to the system, run, and then drain? The hoa would not be pleased to see me hosing sludge out in the parking lot.

 

I'll never understand why people choose and agree to live where some little group gets to tell them what they can/cant do on THEIR property. Not a knock against you man, I'll just never understand

Anyway, to your issue - you obviously drained the system already while doing the other work, right? Did you just catch the coolant in pans/buckets in your garage out of sight of the hoa? Maybe go to Lowes/etc and get 5-10 5gal buckets and some long pieces of vinyl or rubber hose big enough to go over the fittings. You can get vinyl hose pretty reasonable at Lowes. Get a couple sections to extend from the fittings all the way over to the 5gal bucket and do the flush "controlled" into the buckets. Take a lot longer, but just a way you could do it without them seeing.

OR......does your street have a drain close to your garage? Do it late at night, leave the garage door raised an inch and use a blanket to fill the gap so light don't get out, run a LONG piece of hose, from one fitting out to the drain and flush away. Not condoning this, just saying it's "an option"......

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there are flush chemicals out there that you can get at any store, they work ok. or you can just run water through the whole system multiple times until its running clear thats the cheaper route

 

There are additives and such to run in it for about 10-15 minutes before the drain. BG and run rite have some good products. I usually bypass the heater core on my jeep when i do it though. I dont want any of the gook to clog it up

 

Drain it, catch it, fill it with fresh. Coolant doesn't go bad overnight. $20 and 20 min once a year to drain/refill the cooling system will keep coolant looking good and giving max protection year after year.

Inconsiderate/clueless people invented the HOA.......kinda like who invented the speed bump, a condiderate/smart driver or clueless driver that dives too fast thru a parking lot full of blind spots. What came 1st, SFB syndrome or rules and regs.