Questions about PCV

[SVOboy]

There's always the accord wagon or the civic wagovan,

The Fit is wagonlike in nature, I feel.

[Silveredwings]

Originally Posted by SVOboy

There's always the accord wagon or the civic wagovan,

The Fit is wagonlike in nature, I feel.

I'd love an Accord wagon...maybe an '04?

You can't get 'em in the U.S.: they don't burn enough gas for our culture.

[Compaq888]

Ok I tried to change it again and I lost about a gallon of coolant from the engine itself. I added coolant to the overflow tank, should I be scared that I will overheat my engine???

[SVOboy]

I would bleed the air out of the system but if it's full with no air then it is fine.

My PCV system doesn't have any coolant in it.

[Compaq888]

Well I'm an idiot yet again. There is instruction in my FSM how to only drain and add coolant if I drained the system. My dealer was like add some water. Anyway since I have AAA I'm just going to have it towed to the dealer and pay $130 to get it done. I needed a coolant flush anyway, so this just speeds it up.

[SVOboy]

Dude, just run it with the radiator cap off and bleed it, it takes a few minutes and doesn't involve doing anything in particular besides adding coolant as air bubbles come out.

[Gary Palmer]

Originally Posted by Compaq888

Well I'm an idiot yet again. There is instruction in my FSM how to only drain and add coolant if I drained the system. My dealer was like add some water. Anyway since I have AAA I'm just going to have it towed to the dealer and pay $130 to get it done. I needed a coolant flush anyway, so this just speeds it up.

Comaq888: I am really confused. I thought you were trying to change the PCv valve. Their shouldn't be any coolant being lost. If you lost coolant, you should just replace it with a 50/50 mix of antifreeze and distilled water. I don't know what year your Nissan is, but almost everything I have is from around 90-94 and they use a little bleed valve at the top of the engine, where the upper radiator hose attaches. If it has that, just find a spot that has a little bit of slope, put the car up slope, running, let the bleed srew out until it starts letting air/cooleant out, then leave it until you get all coolant, then close the bleed valve. Then you should just need to put a mix in the overflow for the radiator and you should be good to go.

[Gary Palmer]

Compaq: Are you talking about the radiator overflow tank?

[Compaq888]

The problem got fixed. Svoboy talked me through the whole thing. I bled the system and added fluid.