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Originally Posted by nhdoc
My '98 has a purge plug up on top of the block and it's mentioned in the WIS. I think it said to open the plug and while filling watch for coolant to come out of the hole (which never happened) so I filled from the tank and removed the plug and filled from there too. It took quite a bit of coolant through that little hole as I recall but it probably helped eliminate an air pocket up top by doing this.
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Marty,
I unscrewed that plug to but it did not seem to do anything so I replaced it right away. Good to know that WIS refers to it as a "purge plug". I'll work with that a little more the next time I change the coolant.
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