Well the bottom hose is not supposed to get hot, the radiator is supposed to cool off the coolant, so maybe it will be warmish. Really hot or stays cold would be problems.
Used radiator from a car that had the head off, hmmm, maybe a bad radiator blew the headgasket or cracked the head on that car? Yeah, be suspicious of that radiator. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 5:28 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I need to check the bottom hose and see if it is hot after it gets > warmed up. Maybe nothing is flowing thru it although I did get water > flowing out of the top neck with the hose disconnected when filling in > the reservoir. > > On 6/7/2020 4:09 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > > No, flow is out from the top hose (from the head) into the top of the > radiator, then out from bottom of radiator into the thermostat and then > water pump. > > > > Jun 7, 2020 4:43:16 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com>: > > > >> No, I did not turn on the heat before I started filling. The thermostat > was replaced a few months ago. Upper hose gets hot, have not checked lower > hose. I assume it flowed from the bottom up in the radiator? > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > > Max Dillon > > Charleston SC > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://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 > > 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 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
