Least Messy Way to Drain Cooling System (TCS) ? UPDATE - Swirl Pot Not Draining?

[Bryan Boyle]

There are apparently more ways to skin the closing plate cat than I would have thought!

****DELETIA***

Yeah, I just like the threaded inserts.  Everyone has their way of working around it.  Guess if you're doing the factory thing, there's an extra set of hands...or in a garage with others wrenching.  Necessity is the mother of invention, and we all have our ways of looking at the solution!

[EuropaTC]

Checked again at halftime.

Now that is true dedication to the cause, once sat in front of the TV it takes earthquakes to move me.   

Good news though, it sounds like it's working as it should do now.

Brian