Header got here yesterday the 5th. Expected delivery was the 28th. I'm just happy it wasn't lost like it seemed when there were no tracking updates for 5 business. Yeh USPS!
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Cabell and I knocked some stuff out on his 4Stunner then moved to my turd. Car was on the ground when we started at 7:30 and finally got it out around 10:45. The removal alone made everything else I've done on this car seem like a cakewalk. It was difficult as they buried and angled that thing in a nice tight area. Mazda was able to fit a full size radiator because of how they placed it but alas it is thin. New one looks double the size. Going to be fun fitting it back in
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To get the radiator out involved just about removing everything from the pulley's forward lol.
From above:
From below:
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With all that removed you can started jenga'ing the radiator out. As mentioned above the radiator has the AC/PS lines and condensor wrapped around and attached to it. So you have to tilt the radiator up to get it out of the mounting holes while slowly sliding and forcing it around the lines. Then you slowly push it down back around the hard lines. Have to be super careful you don't break those metal lines or there'd be a freon/ps fluid party.
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The plan is to do the header tonight as everything is out of the way minus the strut tower bar. Then hopefully we will get the new radiator in if we have time. I will be flushing the old lines out with distilled water some time this weekend. I was told the whole cooling system is 2 gallons with the new radiator. I'll add in a full thing of Water Wetter (12oz), about 15% Mazda FL22 coolant(37oz), and the rest just straight distilled water(207oz). Then I guess I shall burp the system for however long it takes (45 minutes to 1 hour?). This is my first burp/cooling flush in general. Doesn't seem difficult, just crack open a cold one and relax as it does it's thing. I'll be sure to squeeze the upper and lower radiator hoses to help move air and such. Time to buy a spill free funnel kit!
Cabell and I knocked some stuff out on his 4Stunner then moved to my turd. Car was on the ground when we started at 7:30 and finally got it out around 10:45. The removal alone made everything else I've done on this car seem like a cakewalk. It was difficult as they buried and angled that thing in a nice tight area. Mazda was able to fit a full size radiator because of how they placed it but alas it is thin. New one looks double the size. Going to be fun fitting it back in
To get the radiator out involved just about removing everything from the pulley's forward lol.
From above:
- battery + box (I dropped one J-Hook, still looking for this little guy... probably buried deep in the subframe)
- intake + bottom cover/shield
- ecu + cover
- coolant reservoir
- a bunch of different clips and hoses
- front bumper bolts
- cooling ducts for battery/ecu
- something else I'm probably forgetting
From below:
- front fender liner
- front splash shield/flat belly piece (held on by easily 30 fasteners...)
- front bumper bolts
- a couple of clips and hoses
- unbolt PS/AC lines, condenser and other crap that is also mounted/wrapped around the radiator
- something else I'm probably forgetting
With all that removed you can started jenga'ing the radiator out. As mentioned above the radiator has the AC/PS lines and condensor wrapped around and attached to it. So you have to tilt the radiator up to get it out of the mounting holes while slowly sliding and forcing it around the lines. Then you slowly push it down back around the hard lines. Have to be super careful you don't break those metal lines or there'd be a freon/ps fluid party.
The plan is to do the header tonight as everything is out of the way minus the strut tower bar. Then hopefully we will get the new radiator in if we have time. I will be flushing the old lines out with distilled water some time this weekend. I was told the whole cooling system is 2 gallons with the new radiator. I'll add in a full thing of Water Wetter (12oz), about 15% Mazda FL22 coolant(37oz), and the rest just straight distilled water(207oz). Then I guess I shall burp the system for however long it takes (45 minutes to 1 hour?). This is my first burp/cooling flush in general. Doesn't seem difficult, just crack open a cold one and relax as it does it's thing. I'll be sure to squeeze the upper and lower radiator hoses to help move air and such. Time to buy a spill free funnel kit!