Time to drain the cooling system on....

whodunnit

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...1987, Mercruiser 260, V8. I have located and opened the drains on each of the two manifolds.
Where does one look for any other plugs/petcocks/etc. necessary to drain the block?
 

fat fanny

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Re: Time to drain the cooling system on....

Just bellow the manifolds along the block around the core plugs
 

NHGuy

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Re: Time to drain the cooling system on....

There's one down low on each side of the block, there's a cooler on the port side of the motor that you better pull the hose off of, and also remove the big j shaped hose from the engine water pump. Poke a coat hangar in the engine drains and the exhaust manifold drains. They get a skim of rust over them that can trap the water and ruin your engine.
 
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