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Also, as soon as your pour cool coolant into the system, the thermostat will slam shut, so unless you preheated the coolant, that's going to prevent coolant from getting back up thru the thermostat into the top tank of the radiator. Just run it a bit till the thermostat opens and refill as needed.
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