Serial Block Heater Failures

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On Oct 14, 2:58*pm, "Tiger" <tiger0... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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The coolant reservoir is the highest point of the engine bay... so keeping
the fluid level in the resevoir guarantees that the engine block will have
enough coolant. Look at the level of the reservoir compared to the radiator
to the engine head... you get the idea how high the fluid really have to be.

3 quart is practically half of the coolant capacity. It takes only 6 quarts
to refill the radiator/engine after R&R the radiator and not all of it goes
to the radiator.

There got to be some kind of warranty on the engine block heater from the
dealer... *inquire to get free heater replacement.

Thanks, again, for this--the car is back at the shop today to have the
block heater replaced again. The shop says it needs to "flush" the
block--I've never heard of this, but they are saying it is necessary
to prevent further block heater failures.???

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Re: Serial Block Heater Failures - 10-14-2009 , 11:04 PM