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Hello I'm about to do a cooling system flush and radiator change on my 2003 Sierra 5.3 1500 "T" engine. I was wondering if I could use the HOAT blue Mitsubishi coolant instead of the dexcool. A friend of mine works in a dealership, and he offered a pretty good price on them, and I've been asking around about it and most said that this coolant is the best when it comes to additives. But I'm skeptical about using a totally different coolant in a Chevy, as most people I know use either the orange dexcool or the green stuff. That, and a lot of people hate on dexcool for some reason. What do you guys think?
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I did a coolant flush on my 5.3 '03 Sierra and changed the fluid from green to Prestone orange coolant. I had mild overheating issues prior to the flush, so I figured flushing the coolant and changing to orange Prestone might help (I did the same exact thing in my '04 GTO with LS1 and haven't had overheating issues since forever). Now the temp always goes above midway, and here's the thing... It does the same thing even on the HIGHWAY with fans on high speed, and it sometimes goes down in traffic only (basically when I'm not giving the engine any acceleration). I changed the coolant again with dexcool, and did an air bleed, changed the temp sensor and thermostat two months ago, and cannot see any leak from the pump but still nothing is helping. I'll note that the green coolant didn't look dirty when it I flushed it out, and that it only heats up when I'm accelerating.
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2001 2500HD 6.0 Took my truck to a national chain that I've used before and Trust. Never mind which one. Had the coolant changed and some other front end issues worked on this past Saturday. When I left it was a little warm so I was running my air conditioner. Then yesterday it cooled off quite a bit so I turned on the heater and a few minutes later the low coolant light came on. I started to drive home anyway thinking it was maybe just a little bit low. But I hooked up Torque application using my OBD2 diagnostic in the coolant temperature was steadily Rising. I decided to take my truck back to work and drive a work truck home. Here is where I admit some ignorance about the procedure and I wonder what might have happened. When the coolant is flushed, aren't they supposed to run it through the heater core somehow? Or maybe they did and then it had an air bubble in it and so it didn't fill the heater core? Or maybe there was a very large air bubble somewhere else in the system? I did check the Overflow container and it looked empty but it was dark. The engine was fully warmed up. So what could have possibly happened or what did they forget to do? Or maybe it just needs a little more coolant?
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I have a Silverado 2500 6L WT. I put some green antifreeze in the reservoir and found out that it is bad to mix the green antifreeze with dexcool and thus needed to flush my coolant. I then did a coolant flush with only dexcool to get the green antifreeze out of my truck. All I did was drain the dexcool from the radiator hose, refilled the reservoir with water, ran the water through the engine, and then drained the dexcool from the radiator hose again. All in all, I drained the dexcool from the radiator hose three times (three intervals of flushing water through the engine). I DID NOT remove the drain plug to remove the dexcool from the bottom of the engine block. Did I get all of the green antifreeze out without removing the drain plug or do I need to do another coolant flush?
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I have an 02 Sonoma 4.3L, I'm going at the intake manifold gasket due to the Dexcool issues. I have everything apart except for the wiring harness that goes directly across the top of the engine. It is taut, no slack to tie it off out of the way and I'm not much on the electrical stuff. Should I pick a spot and cut the wires and splice them together afterward, using connectors? Is there a simple solution that I'm not seeing? The intake manifold gasket has to be a common project on all GM 4.3 Vortecs due to the Dexcool degrading the gaskets, so it seems this problem would have come up often and solutions could be found somewhere on the internet but I've found no mention of it anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
