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So took the truck into a local AC place in town. The lower "t" connector and lower assembly line needs replaced. It will 360+ tax. Hope this fixes it. And hopefully I do not have to replace anything else.
I wish I'd taken some better photos of the reservoir outlet. I wasn't sure the hose would fit to it properly until I tried it, and as I stated above, the 3 ply hose gave enough flex for it to fit the way I'd hoped. I can't speak for any other hose fitting the same way. If someone else uses a different hose and it works, please let us know the details on it and where you purchased it!
Here's a photo of the outlet that I screen grabbed from rkeller's earlier post (glad he took the time to take a photo)…
As you can clearly see, there's a big fat part to the outlet from where the quick disconnect "locked on." There's enough of a flat section at the bottom to make the seal with the hose but it doesn't have a barb on it like most coolant hose/ outlet connections. (photo below shows a typical outlet w/ barb meant for a hose and clamp connection)
I was concerned about the lack of a barb on my install. Fortunately, the hose slid all the way up and I was able to add a second clamp at the very top. The top clamp probably doesn't seal the hose tight to the outlet - it just acts as a safety so that the hose can't ever slip off. The bottom clamp does the sealing. Here's a sketch that hopefully helps explain and you may be able to tell why it's important that the hose has enough flex…
I hope this helps.
Thanks, AMP77, for the information, instructions, and photos. I just installed the kit from Pegasus on my 2011 F150. It took me roughly 45 minutes. Same leak as yours. You saved me a lot of $$.
Question.
I have my new upper rad hose and y connector. Have a few days of nice weather and want to put these on. My question, while naive, is how did those of you who replaced the above parts, refill the system? Through the resovior? When I was in collision work, I would pull a vacuum through the sytem and suck the coolant in that way. Don't have access to that anymore, just don't want to leave an air pocket in the coolant system.
TIA
Question.
I have my new upper rad hose and y connector. Have a few days of nice weather and want to put these on. My question, while naive, is how did those of you who replaced the above parts, refill the system? Through the resovior? When I was in collision work, I would pull a vacuum through the sytem and suck the coolant in that way. Don't have access to that anymore, just don't want to leave an air pocket in the coolant system.
TIA
Refilling via expansion tank, the pump will recirculate the coolant and eventually teh system will get de-aerated by itself. Need to keep an eye on it still and refill to the marked level after running the engine for a couple of minutes, not big deal.
Refilling via expansion tank, the pump will recirculate the coolant and eventually teh system will get de-aerated by itself. Need to keep an eye on it still and refill to the marked level after running the engine for a couple of minutes, not big deal.
Refilling via expansion tank, the pump will recirculate the coolant and eventually teh system will get de-aerated by itself. Need to keep an eye on it still and refill to the marked level after running the engine for a couple of minutes, not big deal.
Yup this confused me when I did mine lol, I was wondering why my truck was eating soo much coolant and I didn't even think about it.
Wanted to post back for anybody who cares, the RTV fix I did several weeks ago is still holding up perfectly. cheers!
Yup this confused me when I did mine lol, I was wondering why my truck was eating soo much coolant (...)
The manual is giving the total volume for each type of engine, as far as I know the 5.0 should take 17.3 liters, so as far as during deaeration refilling goes up to the given value no question-marks should arise. On the other hand yeah, it's a lot of refill.
The manual is giving the total volume for each type of engine, as far as I know the 5.0 should take 17.3 liters, so as far as during deaeration refilling goes up to the given value no question-marks should arise. On the other hand yeah, it's a lot of refill.
Yeah but I didn't drain my whole system, I just let whatever was left in the tubes drain out when I disconnected the Y so the majority of what was in there stayed.
I completely drained my radiator and took off both rad hoses the engine and oil cooler. I used about one gallon (2 gallons mixed) and that pretty much filled the whole system. Doing just the wye connector, I'd say you'd be okay with 2 gallons of premix.
02-13-2017, 11:09 AM
Thanks, AMP77
