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davester Senior Enthusiast

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I also use the winter fluid year round.

 

I would suggest not running the pump continuously, to try to pump it all out ASAP, as that's not a normal use-case for the pump.  As well, I would stop running it when most of the fluid is used up, before it's empty, as the pump uses the fluid to cool and lubricate itself, and running it dry is what hurts the pump the most.

Eddie 70 Senior Enthusiast

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Get you a piece of tubing and drop it down in the washer bottle and siphon the blue stuff out and then fill it back up with what you like.

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Capt Bob Enthusiast

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On 11/2/2019 at 5:04 PM, Eddie 70 said:

Get you a piece of tubing and drop it down in the washer bottle and siphon the blue stuff out and then fill it back up with what you like.

Ah, the voice of reason.

Black02Silverado Senior Enthusiast

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I run the -20 F stuff in mine year round here in eastern NC.  It doesn't get to cold here but I do go visit mom in PA in the winter.  I find it on sale in the spring for a $1 a gallon and buy usually 8 gallons of it.  So I have a ton to use between four vehicles. 

MeanGreen1911 Enthusiast

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Get you a bulb type syphon hose from Harbor Freight and syphon the old out. Then you can change fluid types whenever you need to. I think those contraptions are $4-5.


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Resurrecting an old thread.

 

Turns out that this year I had the bug fluid in the reservoir and winter came along.  It didn't freeze hard, but it was freezing and came out like a slush from 7-11. :)  Well, between the time I posted this question and today, I had bought a small battery operated pump to water my plants with a drip tube system.  So today, it was warm enough and I took that pump and some tubing and emptied the reservoir.  Worked very well.  Interesting how deep the reservoir is.  Took a couple feet of tubing to get in there and pump it out.  The pump allowed me to keep the left over bug fluid, however, there really wasn't much left so that really didn't benefit me.

 

I made myself a note to change out the fluid in my fall cleanup checklist.  

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