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Old 02-17-2011, 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 02-17-2011, 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 02-17-2011, 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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Was told to after changing the thermistat
 
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You have GOT to use some punctuation

Are you running hot?
 
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No its not
 
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Old 02-18-2011, 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 02-18-2011, 10:03 PM
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Hey Weed is that what they call a run on sentence? Haha
 
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LOL......trust me, my English Professor in college was like a Drill Sargent
 



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