Yes, I connected everything and drove it to work and back for more than a few days before all the crud was dissolved and circulating .

In fact, I had to dump the citric acid mix and refill it several times, I hope yours isn't this bad .

Where I live the tap water is horribly hard with minerals (beer makers love it) so I had to buy gallons of distilled water, look around it's only $100 if yo search long enough .

Time is your friend here ~ letting it sit with the cleaning solution doesn't do anything ~ you need to circulate it, don't remove the thermostat .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better