thank you for the video. Please Can you explain me in detail the method of filling and bleeding the cooling circuit? because after replacing my radiator on the same car, I no longer have any heating in the passenger compartment and the fan works more than usual
In my limited experience, it would be worth pushing out the piston and greasing. Also making sure the bleed nipple is still functional, preferably removing it and putting a bit of anti-seize on it. At some point in the future when the piston may get seized and cause the brakes to bind, this type of maintenance comes in handy. A stuck piston or a stuck bleed nipple can be something that requires either a lot of caliper refurbishment or more usually trading the caliper in for a refurbished one (expensive). One of the advantages of doing your own maintenance is that you can do the little extras.
Just a suggestion, after fan replacement and coolant re-added make sure fan turns on and working order before reassembling everything. Save a lot of heart ache having to take everything back apart.
at 4:47 the crush tubes were taken out why? Apart from copying well known american 'putting into service mode'. This is not mentioned in official procedures for radiator removal. Please explain? 13:10 he puts them back?
On my 05, the AC radiator in front of the coolant radiator does not want to swing out of the way like you see here. Did you undo some of the fasteners on the metal ac lines behind the radiator assembly?
There is a bracket, near the fan plug, on top right side of radiator. Bracket holds AC fill line. Remove the bracket with 10 mm and it will free up your AC condenser to move.
