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92Lex
You'll need:
2 gallons of Toyota antifreeze
2 gallons of DISTILLED water
about 10ft of 1/2" diameter tubing

Make sure the vehicle is completely cool before you service the cooling system!
Raise the car and place jackstands under or drive it up on ramps, remove the radiator coolant fill bolt (I'm pointing to it):
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92Lex
Get about 5 feet of the plastic tubing and locate the left drain cock on the side of the engine....place one end of the tubing over the drain cock and the other end into your bucket...loosen the 14mm bolt just enough so that coolant will start flowing out in a steady stream. In the pictures I already had the tubing placed over the drain cock and the screw you see next to it is the one that you need to loosen.
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Now locate the right drain cock and do the same:
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92Lex
Now take a pair of pliers or just use your hand and loosen the radiator drain cock located on the right side of the radiator....place the bucket with your 2 plastic hoses from the left and right drain cock directly under the radiator drain cock....loosen the drain cock just enough so that coolant will flow out in a steady stream.
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Picture of bucket location and plastic tubing.
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92Lex
*If you are going to flush the radiator then do this before you add the 50/50 mixture of coolant and distilled water....follow the directions on the back of the radiator flush bottle then proceed with adding the coolant*

Once all the coolant has drained out you're going to want to tighten all the drain cocks...mix a 50/50 mixture of distilled water and the Toyota extended life radiator coolant and add that through the fill bolt (the first picture) till it's full...tighten the filler bolt and torque to 33ft-lbs. Now add coolant into the radiator resevoir and bring it up to the MAX COLD mark...start the engine and let it idle for 15 minutes while you monitor the coolant level in the resevoir...continue adding coolant into the resevoir until it remains stable. Place the cap for the radiator coolant resevoir back on....that's all there is to it.
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sthoma9
Do you need to aerate/bleed the coolant system?
92Lex
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me.
dave_f
QUOTE (92Lex @ Oct 2 2005, 10:31 AM) *
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me.

That photobucket link doesn't work any more, could you re-post your image so I can see the drain screw/bolt location? thanks. - dave
IS250_rookie
please rehost the pictures

p.s.: Nevermind, I found this guy's tutorial website.
http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/cooling/coolant.html
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