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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 06:33 PM
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Today after I got home I thought I needed to burp my cooling system and after getting cap off and letting pressure out slowly coolant was low but not bad and let it run for about an hour idiling the sounded like it was spitting out air out small tube from by pass hose is that what it was doing letting out trapped air any ideas let me no thanks 02 dodge RAM 4.7
 
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 06:38 PM
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Then fluid rose then over flowed then it would drop then it would rise again back and forth till I decided to shut the motor off
 
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 07:12 PM
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What made you think you needed to burp it? The oem thermostat on the 4.7 and 3.7 has a bleed hole in it to allow trapped air to exit the system, so you shouldn't need to burp it the old fashioned way.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 10:53 PM
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Was told to after changing the thermistat
 
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Old Feb 18, 2011 | 07:21 AM
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You have GOT to use some punctuation

Are you running hot?
 
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Old Feb 18, 2011 | 09:38 AM
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No its not
 
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Old Feb 18, 2011 | 09:42 AM
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I think I may need to put a new radiator on it someone before I had the truck put bars leak in it
 
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Old Feb 18, 2011 | 10:03 PM
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Hey Weed is that what they call a run on sentence? Haha
 
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 10:09 AM
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LOL......trust me, my English Professor in college was like a Drill Sargent
 
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