Definitely pull the lower hose. Messing with the drain bolt is asking for trouble.
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: That is way too practical. Then I won't have cause to post more questions about how to repair the bung that I twisted out of my rad, or where the best place to buy a new rad is etc. I might have to try to start a new oil thread. Randy On 31/10/2011 2:16 PM, andrew strasfogel wrote: Brilliant. Now why didn't I think of that. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Dieselhead<126die...@gmail.com> wrote: Pull the lower hose. I need to change out the coolant in my 76 115 300D. I have been intending to do it ever since I bought the car and it has been waiting for me, patiently, I hope. On Saturday, I changed the oil. A lovely job on these old devils where one must crawl under instead of standing upright with one's $2 oil sucker. (As an aside, I bought a more expensive one - to do the oil on the boats, but have yet to try it out.) I put a wrench on the drain plug in the bottom of the radiator but it did not appear to want to budge. Any one think that it is safe to put an impact wrench on it? I wondered if a bit of impact might be safer than a long breaker bar. Not sure that penetrating oil will do much going upwards and not anxious to put heat on it given things are soldered together etc. What other options do I have? Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
