If, while driving your car on a straight road, you notice a strange, sweetish-cloying smell, you should know that this is the first signal that a coolant leak has occurred in the cooling system under your hood in the cooling system. If the temperature sensor shows an increasing degree, clouds of steam begin to pour out of the radiator grill, and liquid begins to drip from the radiator - clearly, you have a problem in which the radiator will need to be replaced.
Necessary
To replace a radiator, you will need a convenient place for repairs, for example, a garage, a new radiator, a coolant fluid, a jack, household gloves
Instructions
Step 1
Let your car cool down.
Step 2
Most automatic vehicles have an oil cooler in the radiator. Carefully loosen the clamps on the coolant hoses and disconnect from the nozzle so that the fluids do not mix with each other.
Step 3
Leave the radiator to drain. It is better if you substitute an unnecessary container under the leak - it must be disposed of in the future, since the liquid is poisonous.
Step 4
Take out the radiator. There are two options: the radiator can be removed simply (just unfasten the fasteners) or it can have additional fasteners to the fan.
Step 5
Compare the old and new radiator - make sure they are the same and there will be no installation problems.
Step 6
Put the new radiator back in place calmly and carefully. Do not crush its plates, this will impair heat transfer.
Step 7
Buckle clamps, reinstall hoses and fittings.
Step 8
Top up with heating medium and let the machine stand. This is necessary so that all the air leaves the system and the coolant passes through a special valve. The front of the machine can be raised to speed up this process.
Step 9
Start the engine. No leaks? Everything is fine, you have successfully changed the radiator.
