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Draining the overflow tank VZ

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After replacing the water pump yesterday plus full replacement of the coolant, the only thing I can't work out is how to drain out the overflow tank so I can fill with the new coolant.
How is it done?
 

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Remove it from under the car.
 

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Really? Doesn't look like that is possible. I'll have to study it more closely.
 

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Remove the wheel well cowling. Or the front bumper. Bumper is easy. Remove your number plate, theres some screws behind it, then up around the guards too.
 

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Jack car up, 1 10mm bolt in the wheel arch on the chassis rail plus a scrivet holding the liner to it, then 2 bolts on the lower section of the head light panel once this is done it will drop out. Also make sure you pull the neck off the top or the hose from the neck
 

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A short length of plastic tube or off cut of garden hose. Insert end into tank hold other end lower than the tank, place end into mouth and suck until fluid starts to flow. It's called siphoning. Try not to swallow any of the coolant. Good luck.
 

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Yeah, but taking it out, you can scrub it out harder than ya mums arm pits that need a going over.
 

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Fluid syringe.
 

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Take it out and clean it properly.

They are all full of residue and crap.
 

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Buy a long-ish length of clear plastic tubing, about the same with as ordinary garden hose.
Cut one end flush, and the other long enough to come down to wheel hub level. Feed the hose down into the overflow tank until it stops (tap it to make sure it is at the bottom). Use a suction bulb (Bunnings) attached to the free end and repeatedly work this while jiggling the hose up and down a little. This should start a drain of the coolant overflow. DO NOT SUCK THE HOSE BY MOUTH.

Removal of the tank is otherwise up on the hoist: it's infuriatingly fiddly, with a virtual Houdini act getting it out and back in without seriously scoring the plastic and thus causing a leak. Same again with the windscreen washer bottle (installed from below, on hoist, with twists, turns, shoves, profanities and more twists still than a corkscrew...:p).

Refill the bottle to the MAX line with replacement coolant (red).

Note that red coolant for the VZ Alloytec is NOT the same as the DEXCOOL solution (yellow) used in VF engines.
 
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