Quote Originally Posted by vdubkilla View Post
Adam are you jacking the car way up in the front as high as you can ? I also found that it helps if you fill the block first and the rad as much as possible .I usually pull the top hose at block loosen it at the rad and turn it upward ,take a 90 degree formed hose and put it on the top fitting where the top hose hooks to the block and fill the block , Make sure the rad is full as possible also .Then remove the 90 degree hose form the block ,fill he top rad hose then quickly turn it downward and install it on the top barb at the block .Then I bought a generic funnel at wal mart or somewhere nothing special about it and put it in the fill neck of my radiator and it fits snug enough to fill it with coolant as well (depending on your rad you may have to hacksaw the funnel / make it shorter where its bigger for a tight fit)and start the engine and let it run .Meanwhile watch the temp the laptop and this method seems to work perfectly for me the engine will generally go to 200+ and bubbles will continue to come up in funnel and level may rise a bit but leave it in there let it idle and top it off when done and like I said this works perfectly for me and God knows I have had my z1 apart a few times lol hope you get it purged of all the air and get back on the road man .Oh and btw OEM t stat is all I will use F... aftermarket junk
Thanks for the info mark. When I put the thermostat in is when I had the issues. Took it out and issues are gone.

I did pull the hose off the rad from the head and fill it with coolant then rad ect. Lower hose just would not hear up.

But it's all good. I'm getting the sleeved motor rebuilt AGAIN. and I won't be running a thermostat with the new cooling system setup I'm going with this time around.

How's yours coming along man?