Just to add, above 205°F isn't overheating on a 5.7 Hemi. The thermostat starts to open at 203 and isn't fully open until about 219 which is about where the high fan comes on. They can safely run at 220 no problem. I'm not trying to criticise, just wanted to throw that out there as it's a common misconception.
I typically run 215 all day, I think the thermostat I have opens up around 190-195, not sure about the fans exactly... although they are on well before that stat opening up.
I applaud you opting on putting a new coolant reservoir in. That's a pet peeve of mine that the orange coolant stains the reservoir badly, making it hard to read the coolant level.
You don’t need to take the whole bumper out. There is a detachable lip on the bottom of the bumper (five 7mm screws and 2 clips) and that gives you enough space for your hand to reach the bleeder valve with pliers. Also, if you have skinny forearms and tiny hands, you can reach the valve from the engine bay. Btw, hope you bought a decent pair of jack stands.
First of all, your car looks and sounds Bad Ass!! I have a 2011 Challenger R/T 5.7 and will attempt a coolant flush/fill and thermostat replacement tomorrow morning before it warms up to nearly 100° here in Northern Nevada. I appreciate your efforts and acquired a lot of useful knowledge and informative guidance from your video. I've previously watched a few other videos of the same and while bringing the engine up to temp, they would turn on the heater to speed up the engine warming process, and also when filling with coolant, they'd remove the bleed screw after the engine has cooled down, located on the high point of the water pump until fluid started to come out, which removes any excess air in the lines and then reinstall after putting some thread sealer on it. Just a suggestion for future high temp issues, but thanks again for a super informative video!! My first Rodeo, prior to a long road trip, so I want to cover all the bases and do everything absolutely to the T, and that being said, a successful one.
Just a tip, if you ever do it again, but, for people watching, there is a bleeder plug on the water pump housing on the backside (engine passage side) of the thermostat. It's usually in the middle, an 8mm allen plug, just above the LEVEL of the bottom of the big coolant hose. When you fill the res with this out, you actually get water into the motor before starting the car, and also will make it painlessly easier to fill. It can be done cold as well..
@@guardiandogoargentinos1385 Don't even BOTHER with the bleeder on these cars, you'll be stuck for HOURS waiting on all the air to stop coming out, just use a spill-free funnel on the overflow tank, get in the car and keep the revs above 2k or 3k for a few minutes until the bubbling stops and i promise you you'll never look at the bleeder again.
Agreed or take two wood 2x8's- 2ft long and place them under the tires, one by one with the jack. Then get the jack under the chassis frame from the front side, jack it up and slide the ramps under the car. Reverse to get the car back down or just drive it off the wood boards when the jobs finished. This is how I do it with my Magnum.
Is this Jose at Mod FX?? Look at all of that red billet bling. No need for the correct plug to plug in your fog lights, just cut the wires and use a splice. Good video man, thats pretty much what I did too. Later on ill do it one more time and that should be enough. Getting the drain plugs out of the block is a pain in the ass. Oh hell I saw a nitrous system!!
Can somebody help me? Please please respond if you have knowledge. I have this exact same car make and model and I’m doing this tommorow myself with no experience. This video has HELPED ALOT but I have a few questions. First off I’m not replacing the whole system but I wanna just drain my coolant and add new coolant. It looks like his old one though. My reservoir. All muggy and grimey. Do I HAVE to clean it? If not what happens?
There's no bleeder valve mine has a bleeder valve it's an allen Bolt right in front of the engine u have to get the air out or just use a vacuum when u fill it if not I'll hear bubbles and you don't wanna let them 5.7 s run hot cuz that's what causes the drop the valve seat at 32:18 it's next to the thermostat housing on the right
I got a question at 27:21 when the coolant drops and you add more coolant you say to repeat the same process. So my question is do you repeat the same process immediately or repeat the same process once the car cools down? So basically as soon as you put the 2nd round of coolant do you turn on the car immediately or let it cool then turn the car on and let it drop? Let me know please, trying to change the coolant on it.
Brah I didn't know you had a CZcams! I follow you on Instagram. And I subscribe your channel! Sweet video and I can't wait to change my Coolant flush! Seems pretty easy to do Side note, your car sounds amazing.
I know this is an old video but will it hurt anything to do a quick flush like this and not get all the old fluid out. going to do mine tomorrow same car 06 charger rt. Thanks
He was pushing 160 something degrees in the video between fills.... not quite full temp, but it could have climbed higher than what we are able to see from the video. Good point by the way.
You should look into the 180° thermostat and tune the fans to come on earlier to keep engine temps down. I noticed a slight increase in power and reliability.
This is false and doubt you are getting more power and reliability will bite you in the ass. Putting in a 180 degree stat is a bad idea because.... Your PCM uses a logic system that enriches the mixture at lower coolant temps to aid in starting and warm-up driveability. It lengthens the injector on-time and basically acts like the chokes on a carb vehicle only better. If you put a lower temp thermostat into this not only will you set a code, if you continue to drive it like that where it cannot reach the operating temp it is engineered to reach you will constantly run rich. All that fuel isn’t getting burned and isn’t making you more power. What it is doing is going into your cats, which are extremely expensive, where it creates a fire inside the substrate and wrecks them. So you’d end up needing a grand or two in new cats, possibly new upstream O2 sensors as they can get damaged as well from this, and a stock temp thermostat to keep this from happening again. If pieces of the broken substrate migrate down the pipe a bit further, you could also have to replace the muffler that would be clogged up with broken catalyst. Hope you have extra cash laying around for down the road.
Rayzaa is correct. The 180 t-stat is an old tweak from the days of small block Chevys and Fords. These cars are engineered to run on a 203 deg. factory thermostat unless you retune the PCM. You will actually loose fuel economy - it results in exactly what he stated.
@@Rayzaa101 i never heard that. Hundreds of people from the Chrysler 300 club recommended a 180 tstat, so i got one. I used the 93 octane diablo tune, tuned my fans, and disabled MDS.
thanks perfect work .i have charger RT 2015 and i need some parts and accessory for my car and if u can , or could me to know about some web site trusted . i am living gulf
You didn't have to take off the bumper, its a drain cock on the bottom passenger side of the radiator, also the engine has 2 block drain bolts on both sides, at the bottom of the engine.
How do you get a charger to sound like that.so I have a 14 charger RT awd haven’t done nothing to it.but I want a mean sound like that,what was done to the engine
Superfast reply! It there a suitable premix substitute that you would recommend for a car off warranty? Your car may still be under warranty, is this the reason you stuck with the Mopar coolant? I only ask because my hemi charger is off warranty. Previously, I always had a repair shop perform the task of changing out the coolant. I am considering doing it myself to save some money.
William Cattr mine is off warranty too, I just like to use mopar and yes there is other brands you can use that are premixed. Not sure which ones tho. You can just go to AutoZone or orielly and ask them. Lol
200-220 is normal. Most Chargers rest between 205-208. Anything over 225 is dangers and most times your engine will cut off to avoid damage. At least that's what mine will do and I have a 3.6 Pentastar.
So on my charger I noticed whoever had it before me had like a orange coolant, I could basically drain that and spray into the resovoir, let that drain and then fill with the mopar coolant? let me know if you can, Nice headers too thoo
It hurts watching you work with NeedleNose pliers. Dude stop next time and grab some small Channel Locks and then continue. Other than that, good Vid and nice ride.
I’m no professional but I noticed you were using needle nose pliers to remove clamps on a hose , weren’t running heater while running / circulation of coolant and you were running your engine without the filter , wouldn’t it have been better to flush with the old reservoir not the new one and since that was supposedly a quick flush and didn’t drain the block doesn’t that bs cleaner stay in your block an why didn’t you use the royal purple flush additive instead of that bs cheap one
@guardiandogoargentinos1385 That's like trying to Get a Picture of Bigfoot!! people have claimed to see them but No ONE on CZcams has ever showed them!!
This guy really just replaced his coolant reservoir because it was dirty. What kind of weird logic lead you to think that you needed to replace that part "because it was dirty". Seriously, cmon dude. Common sense.
As a mechanic of 20 years I had to quit watching around 8 minutes in. Wrong tools, wrong procedures. And alot of wrong information! Overheating at 205? It comes with a higher thermostat than that. A for effort but not an effective way at all to do this.
@@ukayhemi6385 so then by your logic a thermodtat of 203 is fine, but as quoted in the video at 205 degrees it is overheating. What I meant to say was it runs hotter than that from the factory. Sorry.. still a misinformed video.
I give this guy an “A” for effort ... I applaud any and all DiYer’s. Mopar For Ever😎
Just to add, above 205°F isn't overheating on a 5.7 Hemi. The thermostat starts to open at 203 and isn't fully open until about 219 which is about where the high fan comes on. They can safely run at 220 no problem. I'm not trying to criticise, just wanted to throw that out there as it's a common misconception.
I typically run 215 all day, I think the thermostat I have opens up around 190-195, not sure about the fans exactly... although they are on well before that stat opening up.
I applaud you opting on putting a new coolant reservoir in. That's a pet peeve of mine that the orange coolant stains the reservoir badly, making it hard to read the coolant level.
That new Reservoir tank looks 🔥👌
You don’t need to take the whole bumper out. There is a detachable lip on the bottom of the bumper (five 7mm screws and 2 clips) and that gives you enough space for your hand to reach the bleeder valve with pliers. Also, if you have skinny forearms and tiny hands, you can reach the valve from the engine bay.
Btw, hope you bought a decent pair of jack stands.
This was very helpful and insightful ty
First of all, your car looks and sounds Bad Ass!! I have a 2011 Challenger R/T 5.7 and will attempt a coolant flush/fill and thermostat replacement tomorrow morning before it warms up to nearly 100° here in Northern Nevada. I appreciate your efforts and acquired a lot of useful knowledge and informative guidance from your video. I've previously watched a few other videos of the same and while bringing the engine up to temp, they would turn on the heater to speed up the engine warming process, and also when filling with coolant, they'd remove the bleed screw after the engine has cooled down, located on the high point of the water pump until fluid started to come out, which removes any excess air in the lines and then reinstall after putting some thread sealer on it. Just a suggestion for future high temp issues, but thanks again for a super informative video!! My first Rodeo, prior to a long road trip, so I want to cover all the bases and do everything absolutely to the T, and that being said, a successful one.
Just a tip, if you ever do it again, but, for people watching, there is a bleeder plug on the water pump housing on the backside (engine passage side) of the thermostat. It's usually in the middle, an 8mm allen plug, just above the LEVEL of the bottom of the big coolant hose. When you fill the res with this out, you actually get water into the motor before starting the car, and also will make it painlessly easier to fill. It can be done cold as well..
It's rusted on mine and I'm scared to try to open it. Plus i don't have any sealant even if i could miracullusly get it open
@@guardiandogoargentinos1385 Don't even BOTHER with the bleeder on these cars, you'll be stuck for HOURS waiting on all the air to stop coming out, just use a spill-free funnel on the overflow tank, get in the car and keep the revs above 2k or 3k for a few minutes until the bubbling stops and i promise you you'll never look at the bleeder again.
My bleeder screw is stripped, what should I do?
You should really spend a few extra dollars and get a jack stand instead. A lot safer.
True True, will do
Agreed or take two wood 2x8's- 2ft long and place them under the tires, one by one with the jack. Then get the jack under the chassis frame from the front side, jack it up and slide the ramps under the car. Reverse to get the car back down or just drive it off the wood boards when the jobs finished. This is how I do it with my Magnum.
I feel safer with the ramps than a jack stand
Great vid bro
exelente sonido del motor.
Thanks for the nice explanation.
About the front doors, it have some kind of black accessories. What is it?
Is this Jose at Mod FX?? Look at all of that red billet bling. No need for the correct plug to plug in your fog lights, just cut the wires and use a splice. Good video man, thats pretty much what I did too. Later on ill do it one more time and that should be enough. Getting the drain plugs out of the block is a pain in the ass. Oh hell I saw a nitrous system!!
Nice vid bro, I got a 2018 R/T.. would it be the same process for a coolant flush?
Can somebody help me? Please please respond if you have knowledge. I have this exact same car make and model and I’m doing this tommorow myself with no experience. This video has HELPED ALOT but I have a few questions. First off I’m not replacing the whole system but I wanna just drain my coolant and add new coolant. It looks like his old one though. My reservoir. All muggy and grimey. Do I HAVE to clean it? If not what happens?
There's no bleeder valve mine has a bleeder valve it's an allen Bolt right in front of the engine u have to get the air out or just use a vacuum when u fill it if not I'll hear bubbles and you don't wanna let them 5.7 s run hot cuz that's what causes the drop the valve seat at 32:18 it's next to the thermostat housing on the right
nice video bro
Subbed 🤙🏾
Subscribed from off of insta! Nice vid!
Video made my life easier !! 😭😭
I have the same charger and when i turn my steering wheel to the left sometimes my power steering fuse blows, do you maybe know why?
I got a question at 27:21 when the coolant drops and you add more coolant you say to repeat the same process. So my question is do you repeat the same process immediately or repeat the same process once the car cools down? So basically as soon as you put the 2nd round of coolant do you turn on the car immediately or let it cool then turn the car on and let it drop? Let me know please, trying to change the coolant on it.
Yes I repeat it right away. because I am not going to touch any hot parts anymore.
Hemi Pharaoh ok thanks. How many times did you have to do it?
Twins22 I think like 4 times.
Hemi Pharaoh hey bro where did you buy the reservoir , can you post the link please
how many times total to refill resevoir before you were at the proper level?
Brah I didn't know you had a CZcams! I follow you on Instagram. And I subscribe your channel! Sweet video and I can't wait to change my Coolant flush! Seems pretty easy to do
Side note, your car sounds amazing.
ChickenIsRaww oh yes man I started posting videos not too long ago. Yes it easy just takes time. And thanks so much for your support. 👊👊👊
Did you bleed the coolant system? Greetings from germany
Where did you get your rear spoiler mopar truck decal .
I know this is an old video but will it hurt anything to do a quick flush like this and not get all the old fluid out. going to do mine tomorrow same car 06 charger rt. Thanks
No it work hurt anything.
Did you need to loosen the bleeder valva?
How do you know when you have to flush the whole coolant out ?
Wait so how many gallons of water to flush goes in this ?
Your car sounds so mean! What headers do you have? Looks like long tubes
Where you get the rear bumper add on from ?
When you do the flush do you keep the drain plug open until your ready to use the coolant?
Should have left only distilled water in there, especially for the summer months and put coolant once it hits winter and cold temperatures
sounds nice...judging by the idle and exhaust note your running a tune or and or cam?
Thanks man, and yes it has a big Cam in it.
Did u flush out block nd radiator first !!!! Lol
Did you have your heater at full temp, min fan speed so the fluid (cleaner and coolant) circulated through the heater core too?
I am thinking no, he was letting circ without the cap on as well.
He was pushing 160 something degrees in the video between fills.... not quite full temp, but it could have climbed higher than what we are able to see from the video. Good point by the way.
Helpful thank you
I need you to come help me!! I do not know what I am doing!😬
At 7:10 “that’s what she said”
Mopar habibi 🤙🤙
What chin splitter is that? Looks sharp.
Thanks, its APR racing brand
You should look into the 180° thermostat and tune the fans to come on earlier to keep engine temps down. I noticed a slight increase in power and reliability.
This is false and doubt you are getting more power and reliability will bite you in the ass. Putting in a 180 degree stat is a bad idea because....
Your PCM uses a logic system that enriches the mixture at lower coolant temps to aid in starting and warm-up driveability. It lengthens the injector on-time and basically acts like the chokes on a carb vehicle only better. If you put a lower temp thermostat into this not only will you set a code, if you continue to drive it like that where it cannot reach the operating temp it is engineered to reach you will constantly run rich. All that fuel isn’t getting burned and isn’t making you more power. What it is doing is going into your cats, which are extremely expensive, where it creates a fire inside the substrate and wrecks them. So you’d end up needing a grand or two in new cats, possibly new upstream O2 sensors as they can get damaged as well from this, and a stock temp thermostat to keep this from happening again. If pieces of the broken substrate migrate down the pipe a bit further, you could also have to replace the muffler that would be clogged up with broken catalyst.
Hope you have extra cash laying around for down the road.
Rayzaa is correct. The 180 t-stat is an old tweak from the days of small block Chevys and Fords. These cars are engineered to run on a 203 deg. factory thermostat unless you retune the PCM. You will actually loose fuel economy - it results in exactly what he stated.
@@Rayzaa101 i never heard that. Hundreds of people from the Chrysler 300 club recommended a 180 tstat, so i got one. I used the 93 octane diablo tune, tuned my fans, and disabled MDS.
I love when fuds try and convince the world they know more about these vehicles than the manufacturer.
thanks perfect work .i have charger RT 2015 and i need some parts and accessory for my car and if u can , or could me to know about some web site trusted . i am living gulf
high horse performance or summit racing is the best!
You didn't have to take off the bumper, its a drain cock on the bottom passenger side of the radiator, also the engine has 2 block drain bolts on both sides, at the bottom of the engine.
How do you get a charger to sound like that.so I have a 14 charger RT awd haven’t done nothing to it.but I want a mean sound like that,what was done to the engine
Looks like he has Long tube Headers.. and straight pipe.. ..
Do a resonator muffler delete.. you'll get almost same result.
Nice job!!
Do you rotate the drain plug or pull it?
rotate counterclockwise
Is there any particular reason you decided to use the concentrate instead of the premix?
William Cattr no reason at all, I would've gotten the premixed if they sold it from Mopar. But they don't.
Superfast reply! It there a suitable premix substitute that you would recommend for a car off warranty? Your car may still be under warranty, is this the reason you stuck with the Mopar coolant? I only ask because my hemi charger is off warranty. Previously, I always had a repair shop perform the task of changing out the coolant. I am considering doing it myself to save some money.
William Cattr mine is off warranty too, I just like to use mopar and yes there is other brands you can use that are premixed. Not sure which ones tho. You can just go to AutoZone or orielly and ask them. Lol
Weird, when I worked at a dodge dealer and we needed to replace the coolant in mine, I came back with pre Mixed mopar coolant lol
Why pay for water. Premix u get only half of the coolant for ur $ the rest is water that get for like $1 a gallon
You didn't drain the old fluid from the block
Craig Haynes I know, I said in the video this is a quick flush and there is still some fluid in the block.
Hemi Pharaoh how do you make the super flush then?
How do you drain the fluid from the block?
Have to take off the water pump to drain the fluid from the block
@@ashtonteague1063 I believe theres a small screw you just take out around the water pump. You dont have to remove the entire water pump.
Hey is everything the same for a 2016 charger pursuit with the 5.7?
Anyone know why it reads TRANSMISSION HOT??
I NEED A DIY ON YOUR AIR INTAKE PLEASE
Next time just put water in the radiator instead of turning car on so the gallon of water you put can go in the radiator
There's no radiator cap on these cars nor on the 300C
So mine is overheating between 200-205 what should I do and I flushed my coolant just without water 2011 charger
200-220 is normal. Most Chargers rest between 205-208. Anything over 225 is dangers and most times your engine will cut off to avoid damage. At least that's what mine will do and I have a 3.6 Pentastar.
Bro add a 6.4 intake and wear gloves your dirty hands are stressing me out lol. I go no gloves alot too so i'm not innocent lol.
What a pain it was to watch you not knowing what your doing.
By far all the videos i have seen dont show a very detailed explanation on how to drain coolant
Dude! Use jack stands.
water on galloons u tripping lol
Did you forget to turn on the a/c on low
rice is life
So on my charger I noticed whoever had it before me had like a orange coolant, I could basically drain that and spray into the resovoir, let that drain and then fill with the mopar coolant? let me know if you can, Nice headers too thoo
this was not a full flush some could still be in the motor, never mix coolants will cause acid reaction over time.
What headers are you running ?
JBA Long tubes
@@HemiPharaoh . Nice ..sounds vicious .cams also ? Did u have any fitment issues ? Any alterations to the header to fit
Ok the old one is bad??
Bad if you don't like the fact that it's staind and looks like shat. He just swapped the res for a fresh look.
Y apologize about ur hands ur a guy for one and ur working on a car WTF?
Not big enough, that's what she said 😂
It hurts watching you work with NeedleNose pliers. Dude stop next time and grab some small Channel Locks and then continue. Other than that, good Vid and nice ride.
Video gave me anxiety bro.
need to get yourself checked.
Jesus Rodriguez why?????
No Jack stands is why. Just a guess
Hemi Pharaoh One wrong move through a deep puddle and your cold air intake is gonna suck in water. $700 fix.
@@ReveredDead that would be one deep ass puddle, lol. Btw, the stock airbox draws from the same hole.
How much was that reservoir?
@Erik Guerrero from where?
It was soo painful to watch that part with the needle nose pliers to move hose clamps!!😶🙀
What are you suppose to use?
Hemi Pharaoh Can This Video Be The Same Process For a 06 Charger rt??
I have the exact same car. If you can lmk how you did it? Was it the same way?
hey brotha whats that small intake called?
nevermind found it
Leg Maker True Cold Air Intake
Where are you from
and what is your name
Hes from egypt my guess
I’m no professional but I noticed you were using needle nose pliers to remove clamps on a hose , weren’t running heater while running / circulation of coolant and you were running your engine without the filter , wouldn’t it have been better to flush with the old reservoir not the new one and since that was supposedly a quick flush and didn’t drain the block doesn’t that bs cleaner stay in your block an why didn’t you use the royal purple flush additive instead of that bs cheap one
Your not a professional, but a dick. Atleast he tried@!@
My srt runs at 244f on a hot day
That’s over heating lol
@@tgang5212 well I got no wither choice I live in the Middle East and it’s almost 138f outside
First its a guy using a petcock and then a guy unpluggin a lil small hose bs
This shit is so complicated. I rather just go to dealer. unplug- drain- plug fill- drive unplug, drain, add etc too much steps. I just pay dealer
Is it okay for me to mix orange coolant with green coolant?? I’ve just bought me a charger today it haves green coolant in it..
Matthew Anderson wouldn't recommend mixing orange with green it will turn like jello
Matt’s Auto get a flush done and let them remove both block drain plugs out and put the correct coolant in
Matt’s Auto how much km do you have on you’re Charger
@@rahrah8076 do you know where the block drain plugs are on an 07 300C 5.7?
@guardiandogoargentinos1385 That's like trying to Get a Picture of Bigfoot!! people have claimed to see them but No ONE on CZcams has ever showed them!!
Bleed ur damn system 😂
we want to translate Arabic
This guy really just replaced his coolant reservoir because it was dirty. What kind of weird logic lead you to think that you needed to replace that part "because it was dirty". Seriously, cmon dude. Common sense.
Too much moving around my friend
Video too long get to the point
Shouldn’t be making a video if you don’t know how to remove a radiator cap.
Shut the fuck up asshole.
The camera man needs to stop breathing heavily into camera
As a mechanic of 20 years I had to quit watching around 8 minutes in. Wrong tools, wrong procedures. And alot of wrong information! Overheating at 205? It comes with a higher thermostat than that. A for effort but not an effective way at all to do this.
still did the work tho with no problems till today :-)
Stock T-Stats are 203 degrees goofy
@@ukayhemi6385 so then by your logic a thermodtat of 203 is fine, but as quoted in the video at 205 degrees it is overheating. What I meant to say was it runs hotter than that from the factory. Sorry.. still a misinformed video.
How do you go about flushing the coolant?
Stock is at 203 master tech😂😂😂😂😂😂