putting a rear heat exchanger in a 02 viper

[Yamaouch08]

What is the best way to do this as far as trying not to get any air in the cooling system? The exchanger has a bleed screw,so do i just take out the cross pipe and put the exchanger in its place? Do i need to lift the rear of the sled to keep from looseing coolant? I have never done this,and did not receive instructions. Anything would be helpful,thanks

 

[acnas]

Raise the back as high as you can. Take the hoses off at the pipe, not the runnig board exchangers end. I also had to drill a new hole in the tunnel for the air bleed screw on the new exchanger, not in the same location as the pipe one. I installed the exchanger and also refilled the coolant from the bleed hole as well. Took a while to fill but no air bubbles.

 

[YamaChris]

I tried a trick that seemed to work pretty well to get the air out. I took coolant cap off and put compressed air nozzle on overflow tube on coolant tank. Had a friend put a little compressed air into tank (he had his palm over the cap hole) and cracked rear exchanger bleeder (with back end high like acnas said). When I couldn't get any more out I let it warm up and than tried again. Repeat until no bubbles.

I ran all season with no troubles.

 

[EGGMAN]

I helped Yamachris with that and it did really seem to work easily.