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Over a year of not changing out the liquid is a pretty scary site. Had primochill fluid in my system and the red dye is in everything.

Can anyone let me know of ways to get the residue out of my pump and rad?

Thanks
 
Vinegar + water usually cleans anything.

I don't know what effect that might have on pump innards, however.
 
More of an idea I had...

Get a paint bucket, and cut a hole the size of your tubing. Then put the tubing slightly into the hole, connect it to the pump, and turn the pump off. Filling the bucket when necessary. Make sure you have tubing on the other side of the pump though. ;). Not exactly sure how well it will work...but's what I plan on doing when I replace my coolant (I have Blue Primochill). Make sure it's distilled water, but you probably already knew that.

For my rad's I did what the sticky said...

The hardest part to clean in the loop is the radiator because you cannot open it. If you bought it new, it will have a lot of deposits in it, especially flux from the manufacturing process so you need to remove them but even used can have some residu from the cooling fluid or algae. The best way to clean them would be to use boiling distilled water so pour it in the reservoir outlet till it's filled up, leave it for 5-10 mins then remove half of it and shake it (make sure to wear oven mitts since it will be very hot). Do this for 6-10 times till the water come out very clean but it's possible you will need more. A easier way would be to buy a cheap submersible pump, put it in a kettle, connect the radiator to the pump then let it run for 1-2 hours till it come clean (just replace the water once or twice to help)
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And it seemed to work.

Probably the best way to clean it properly is to take it apart and clean it with ketchup. IMO, I don't want to take something leak free apart, and hope it's not going to leak after I mess around with it.

Anyways, GL.
 
Decided to just hook it up to my tap. Ran hot water for a couple of hours then cold sine cold has less deposits. next up is boiling distilled. thanks everyone
 
Make sure you clean both out with distilled, tap has sediments and gross stuff.
 
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