Yesterday I was doing some finishing touches to my turbo install, one of which was sleeving some hoses with insulating material.

Me being an idiot and not thinking, yanked a hose off next to the exhaust manifold that I thought was a heater hose (right next to the heater hose actually). Turned out to be a coolant hose...I'm guessing the main coolant supply hose to the head because it was about a 1/2" id hose. Maybe half a water bottle amount of coolant came out (because i had no drain prepared thinking that there was just air in there) so i just let it come out.

Should I completely bleed the coolant system or just add some to the radiator and it will gravity feed to where it needs to go?

Thanks

 

I would go ahead and just drain,clean & refill.No reason to mix clean with dirty fluids.

\rlr
carolina

 

how long to i have to let the car run after filling the coolant. I hope i don't have to drive it?

Iwill only have a base tune on the car at the time, and plan on getting it towed to the tuner right away.

 

Yes you need to bleed the coolant, and you need to let it run for like 30-60 minutes depending on how much air is in the system. If you hold the RPMS's at about 3,000 for about 10 seconds at a time, it helps the air bubbles come out faster, i just did this. But if you dont bleed the system COMPLETELY then the slightest air bubble will make your car run a little hotter then normal.