Tools for Replacing Car Radiator

Video Transcript

"In this segment we're going to cover the tools needed for replacing an automotive radiator. As I use in my other training series, I use a basic standard socket and ratchet set which gives me a good assortment of both standard and metric, short and deep quarter inch, three eighth and half inch drives. I have a small selection of pliers, dikes and other various wrenches. It doesn't take a whole lot. We're just looking for the minimums to get the job done. The next thing we're going to need is a drain pan. We're going to be draining both the antifreeze and automatic transmission fluid, that goes to the cooler on the radiator. If you have two pans available, two pans would work better. A couple of jugs work nice too because we do want to recycle this. What we don't want to do is mix the two chemicals together. We want the antifreeze and the automatic transmission fluid separate. The automatic transmission fluid, I'll just mix in with my oil when I take it down for recycling and the antifreeze I put in a separate jug and take down separately. There's a point in time when, there's a splash shield under the vehicle, when we go to drain it, it could drain across that splash shield and can make a little bit more of a mess with the splash shield in place. It's up to you whether you want to jack the vehicle up and remove the lower splash shield on there. It'll make draining a little bit easier for you and you'll have less of a mess. That's up to your discretion. That should just about cover it for tools needed. Please watch our next segment and we'll start on removing some of the items to get to the radiator. First step being the fresh air intake duct."