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Old Thu, August 11th, 2011, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by rammertide07 View Post
Ok, what's the best way to manually turn the engine? Don't you have to do something to let the pressure out..or does it go out the exhaust valves? So what is the coolant plug for? Would it be any use when draining the coolant?
Use a breaker bar & socket on the bolt on the crankshaft damper bolt to turn the crank a little, shoot I'd just try to get it by bumping the starter but I've never wanted to know that bad. You are gonna have to put some a$$ into it to turn the crank as you're having to overcome the compression of the engine.

The coolant plug is just for that, draining the coolant out of the block. There is one on the passenger side also.
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