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Ford Escape not taking specified coolant volume.
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jbora88
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Aug 26, 2023, 10:31 AM
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Ford Escape not taking specified coolant volume.
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My wife crashed our 2011 Ford Escape XLT AWD V6 3.0, causing me to have to replace the bumper reinforcement bar, condenser, radiator, and fan. Just finished all that work but I'm having a weird issue with refilling the coolant. The manual says the coolant capacity is 9L, but I cannot get the car to accept more than 5L. At first it would only take about 3L, but I followed the instructions here (https://newsmartsafe.com/industry-news/coolant-bleed) to help me get to 5L. However, no matter how many times I repeat those steps, the coolant level in the reservoir is not going down. I've taken the car on a lengthy test drive and confirmed that it is not overheating and the car cabin blower does blow heat, so I'm tempted to just say that's good enough. It does still bother me though that I've only put about half the specified coolant capacity back in. Any help with this issue is appreciated.
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Hammer Time
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Aug 26, 2023, 2:16 PM
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It will never take 9L because it was never empty. The block and heater core still held coolant.
Also, I read those bleeding instructions and that won't work. You cannot run the engine up to operating temp with the cap off. The coolant has to be under pressure or it will start boiling before it reaches operating temp and will bubble back out of the cap.
Do this,
Fill it up dead cold. Put the cap on a bring it up to operating temp and drive it around the block. Now park it and don't touch it unto the engine is dead cold, I mean hours. Remove the cap and top it off if necessary. Repeat this process until the level doesn't drop any more when cooled off.
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(This post was edited by Hammer Time on Aug 26, 2023, 2:23 PM)
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jbora88
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Aug 26, 2023, 3:03 PM
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Ok, I was under the assumption (maybe because I learned all my car knowledge on 80s era vehicles) that when I removed the radiator, all the coolant that came out of the lower radiator hose was literally all the coolant in the vehicle. I even went as far as running the car to operating temp with no radiator attached so that the thermostat would open up and dump more coolant. I then took the garden hose to run clear water into the bottom radiator hose until I saw only clear water coming out of the upper radiator hose. I figured this was a kind of unorthodox way to flush everything out.
My question is now how bad did I mess stuff up. Before the accident, there was yellow/green coolant in the vehicle. I read in the manual that the organic orange coolant was the preferred coolant, so that is what I refilled it with. Therefore, if there was residual yellow/green coolant in the block/heater, I've now mixed a fair amount of coolant types, which apparently is a no no. Do I need to do a proper flush now or am I probably OK. This is now a 12 year-old vehicle but I'm hoping to be driving it for at least a few more years.
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Hammer Time
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Aug 26, 2023, 3:12 PM
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I wouldn't be too concerned with the mix. You might want to test the freeze point after you have driven it a little to insure it's mixed thoroughly. You may have diluted it a good bit with the water flushing.
The only way you you get the block drained is by removing the plugs in the side of the block and blowing out the heater core which isn't necessary unless you are concerned about freezing in storage.
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