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aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues #7014466
10/11/20 12:13 PM
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every blasted thing I went to tells me that the petcock is on the drivers side of a 2000 chevy blazer...and you need a ratchet to take it off..............welllll, mine sure don't......its passenger side....I was able to locate it.......now I cant unscrew it......it looks like wings........im afraid of breaking the thing off....is there a particular way its sposed to come out?...it doesn't help that you can barely reach into the area as well.

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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014473
10/11/20 12:18 PM
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What are you trying to do?

Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: dkrug] #7014475
10/11/20 12:23 PM
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drain the radiator, too much water in it........not enough antifreeze
the bottom hose sits too high to totally drain or rlse i'd just do that......undo the hose and call it good

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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014480
10/11/20 12:27 PM
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It usually doesn't come all the way out. You just loosen it and it should drain unless the bottom of the rad has a ton of gunk in it. If you can't get that to drain or loosened, just undo the bottom hose clamp and drain some out.


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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014481
10/11/20 12:28 PM
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Turn it the other way. Seriously.



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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: chas3457] #7014482
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Originally Posted by chas3457
Turn it the other way. Seriously.



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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014502
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At our shop, we have a hose and siphon it out. Slot safer than messing with the petcock.

Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014545
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Also to add to this in my experience if there a pain in the butt to get open, you will have a high chance of not getting them to reseal when closed. Most all petcocks ive dealt with screw into the radiator, just unscrew whole thing and replace with new one, there cheap. When I was mechanicng for GM dealership if we had one that was hard to open we just replaced them.


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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014547
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What BraskaYoter said


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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014568
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when they have no direct radiator cap, the cap is on the overflow , cutting the heater hose to drain some then install a flush T is another option


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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014570
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thanks guys.......i figured something out.....just got aggravated sitting and thinking............i cant rest until i get a problem solved.


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Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014573
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These newer plastic radiators don't have replaceable petcocks guys. Just a plastic deal molded into the rad.

Safer to siphon if at all possible.

Re: aggravated, cant find answers for petcock issues [Re: foxkidd44] #7014575
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Good deal, glad ya got it!

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