slight overheating help
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I discovered a trick for filling the cooling system. It's too late for you, but anyone else who reads this could benefit.
There's that plug thing on the top left of the throttle body. It's either a 21mm hex head or some fat allen key, mine was a 21mm. Remove that. It opens up the coolant lines in the throttle body and allows air to escape while filling. You'll see coolant fill to that hole about the same time the radiator fills to the top. Then close it and top off the radiator and overflow.
There's that plug thing on the top left of the throttle body. It's either a 21mm hex head or some fat allen key, mine was a 21mm. Remove that. It opens up the coolant lines in the throttle body and allows air to escape while filling. You'll see coolant fill to that hole about the same time the radiator fills to the top. Then close it and top off the radiator and overflow.
this is really helpful. but i must need to see a photo of it. Could you please take the photo, mark this plug thing and post it hear?
why i am asking because here the summer starts in March and at this weekend i will be doing whole this cooling system fix for my truck. Because its spilling water in reserve bottle even i park it after driving 1 Km only. Have changed couple of rad caps, but nothing. so i am gonna fix it by this weekend and need to see your photo. different models came with slightly different location/shapes of parts, hence just want to make sure that i am open the correct plug as you mentioned.