Just because it wasn't mentioned, I figured I would seeing as you are in The Great White North according to your header.
Did you flush the system with water before filling it up? I ask because this throws the 'premix' antifreeze percent 'way' off. When you water flush, water is left in the block and heater so you need to add the correct amount of pure antifreeze first, then top it up with water when refilling.
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >
A tire iron silly, or a cheater bar...
Kate
AND to whack the starter now and then...
Kate
I always used one hand to push and hold the alt, and one hand to tighten the bolts. Never had a problem?
Carl
On a scale of Bubba Smith to Warren Sapp, roughly where do your arms fit?
Carl proclaimed:
Lon,
After a few years in the delivery and now in the construction business, holding an alternator is not much of a challenge. ;-)
Carl
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