On the back side of where the upper radiator hose hooks to the engine.
I cut off the rusted out lines with a small tubing cutter and replaced them with regular heater hose and clamped the ends. Copper tubing and hose clamps also work.
Drain the coolant, unclamp the old hose, remove the old hose, install the new hose, clamp the new hose in, fill up the coolant.
Heater coolant bypass pipe It would be the return hose for the heater.
The hose that leads to the water pump area is the return.
it is in the heater hose close to the firewall near the master cylinder its a black plastic valve with a vacum hose connected to it
No, you will not have to drain all the coolant to change the thermostat on a 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan. Only the hose that is connected to the thermostat needs to be drained.
coolant leak more than likely heater hose pipe
The heater uses the engine coolant to heat the vehicle. The radiator has a drain petcock along the bottom edge to drain the coolant system.
Drain the old coolant via the lower rad. hose into a catch pan. Now it is good to flush the system. Remove one of the heater core hose's at the fire wall. With a garden hose in the open heater hose flush it. Then put the garden hose in the metal tube ( heater core line ) and flush that. With the rad. hose back on and clamped, and the heater hose just back on, no clamp. Fill the rad. with a good coolant ( pure ) till it's full, start the engine with the heater in the car on full, the coolant will go down so keep the rad. topped up. As the engine reaches operating temp. the thermostat will open and it will need more coolant. Top up. Now bleed the system with the heater hose at the fire wall. Open the hose slightly, with engine running, air and coolant will come out, do it slowly, can get hot, and coolant will drop on the exhaust so watch for smoke. Do this till all the air is out, both heater hoses will be hot. Top up rad. , job done.
The heater core or a hose to the heater core has a leak. Hopefully it's a hose under the hood because it's a very involved process to get the heater core out.
You have to tap into the heater hoses.