Radiator Drain Plug Location?

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The drain should be located on the bottom of the radiator on the drivers side. It looks like a wingnut and turns like one too. However, be careful. Older ones can be brittle and break while trying to open. if you are worried buy a new one before you start, they are cheap and may prevent being stuck with no fluid in radiator when you need to make a trip to buy parts. THis guide can help you service the cooling system witht he drain plug location in the diagrams below.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/coolant-flush-and-refill-all-cars

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The drain should be on the bottom right side check out the diagrams below. As far as capacity, it will be based on if you drain the block. As far as an additive, do you have a leak and know where it is? Capacity is between 1 and 2 gallons, depending if it has a tow package, a/c and other options. The drain (if it has one) will be on the bottom of one of the side tanks on the radiator. Sometimes they don't have a drain and you have to remove the hoses to drain it. I don't recommend any stop leak additives at all, if there is any restrictions they tend to compound the problem. A/C Delco has a package of "conditioning" tablets for Caddy's that is a stop leak, I would use that if any at all. If it has an intake leak you are trying to stop, it should be taken care of as soon as you can, if it leaks internally it will mix water with the oil and can cause internal engine problems. This guide will help you service the cooling system with the location of the drain plug below.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/coolant-flush-and-refill-all-cars

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Push in and twist. They tend to stick if you haven't opened it in awhile. If that don't work just remove the lower radiator hose.

I am sure that information will help others. Come back if we can help you with anything. Thanks

If there's no drain plug-disconnect the bottom hose

There are no drain plugs on the engine. Only freeze plugs. You could have some serious trouble here as green and Orange coolant do not mix. But the best thing to do is get as much coolant out as you can and get some radiatior cleaner like prestone, that has oxyalic acid in it and follow the directions on the bottle. YOU DO NOT WANT RADITOR FLUSH. Then pull the lower rad hose to get all the crap out. Before filling iwth coolant however have the system checked for a bad head gaskets /intake gaskets, quite common on these, that's is why the guy kept adding to it. Normally head gaskets on these will leak to the outside of the engine.

The only thing I can advise here is stick a hose into the radiator ro buy one fo the kits that hook up to the heater hose. Open the petcock on the radiator and start ther truck up. Copletely draining the system like you want to do is very hard and without running water through it is about the only way to do it.

It's pretty simple. The radiator is stripped where the plug goes and you need to replace the radiator.

And that is different from what I said? It's stripped and needs a new radiator.

It has a rubber seal. It doesn't need to be over tightened like that. Expensive lesson. New radiator