Coolant leaking

AR RAY

MEMBER
2005 MERCEDES BENZ C230
270,000 MILES

So a friend of mine brought to my attention that there was coolant leaking from my radiator, so I decided to park it. We had a bad snowstorm and ice and it said add coolant. When I tried to start the car put some coolant there in and some leak out. I did not touch the car and decided to wait to the weather warms up to work on it. Well the coolant pipes resisted me trying to change them ended up breaking the pipes trying to reassemble it. Made it even worse. So I need help on trying to put the coolant pipes back together, assembling the radiator and a radiator fan and make necessary connections, then filling the system cool and then bleeding it.

Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 AT 10:34 PM

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KASEKENNY

MECHANIC
18,907 POSTS

I am attaching the process from the manual on how to install these components and it shows diagrams of how each go together.

Then we need to just fill the system with coolant and start the engine. As it warms up it will pull the coolant into the engine and we will need to top it off. At that point, I would let it cool down and pressure test the cooling system. Here is a guide on how to do that:

https://youtu.be/W8kra65m15c

Once we know there are no leaks we need to run the engine again and make sure the coolant is topped off and you should be good to go.

Let us know if there are other issues. Thanks

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