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  1. 09-26-2010 11:35 AM #1
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    rear coolant flange

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    Question.. Audi B6 A4. to do the rear coolant flange, do you have to drain the old coolant out?
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  2. 09-26-2010 11:41 AM #2
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    You don't absolutely have to, but you'll make one hellaciously huge mess if you don't.
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  3. 09-27-2010 05:21 AM #3
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    If you let the coolant flange repair go long enough it drains its self.
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  4. 09-27-2010 08:31 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freefall_Doug View Post
    If you let the coolant flange repair go long enough it drains its self.
    soo true, i guess you could do it without draining it if you don't care to dispose of the coolant properly...just did this last week and it is a bitch of a job...
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    take the belly pan off and put a drain pan underneath the tranny and just let it drain when you take the flange off. Make sure you have new coolant, a mirror, and a lot of patience lol. good luckk
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  6. 09-27-2010 10:26 AM #6
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    Sears has a remotely operated hose clamp tools that I found to be very helpful. The hose clamp jaws are cable operated. Even with this tool it was a major pain getting back behind the engine. I don't know how people get those hose clamps off back there without these tools, but god bless them because I would loose my shiet trying to do it!
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  7. 09-27-2010 01:22 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freefall_Doug View Post
    Sears has a remotely operated hose clamp tools that I found to be very helpful. The hose clamp jaws are cable operated. Even with this tool it was a major pain getting back behind the engine. I don't know how people get those hose clamps off back there without these tools, but god bless them because I would loose my shiet trying to do it!
    bloody knuckles, a pack of cigs, and a whole lot a muscle...

    at one point i was about to take my glock and shoot the damn clips off...
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    Take as much shit out from behind there as you can. Such a pain with all that crap there. Was so much easier once Charlie told me to take all that crap out from behind the motor haha.
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    still, it's beyond me how some people here change it out in a few hours or less, took me six hours!!!
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    Six Hours?!?! Good lord.
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    yea, almost as long as it took me to do the timing belt...well, if i had a dremel i would have finished in 3, but i wasted like 3 hours trying to get that faking spring clip off the flange...so i had to make a trip to home depot...
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    This was a very annoying fix. One I would take into shop for $150 + part if I were to do it again.
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