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[s'good]

Hi guys, thanks for helping my mom!
Anyway, I just popped a new thermostat in for her, and I have 2 questions before I run the car hot enough to test the fix:
1) I am confused about the correct order of the ignition wires connected to the electronic ignition distributor. The car seems to like being plugged in like so:

5-1
6-2
4-3

(from the front of the car)
Is this the rigt order? It seems strange, but I'm used to dealing with distributor caps.

2) Where is the coolant bleeder screw?!! I drained a lot of the coolant out while replacing the thermostat, and now I need to bleed the air out while refilling it.

thanks very much.
-Jon

 

[nc89sho]

that is the correct order, good guess. i know it's weird, but name something that isn't strange about a 220hp taurus..

 

[sdpatt]

The Motorcraft thermostat has two, small "jiggle valves" that are placed at the top of the thermostat to help the trapped air to escape during the refilling of the system. I hope you used the Motorcraft part. The aftermarket versions do not have the jiggle valves and make refilling the system much tougher. Just keep the expansion bottle filled and the engine will top itself off to be liquid solid in a few dozen miles of driving. Just don't run it too hard until all of the air is purged.