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No harm doing your troubleshooting with water. You are right to use distilled (or deionized) water instead of tap - avoid dumping minerals and chlorine in there if you can. Then drain the water via the radiator spigot (the block won't drain like this) and top off with 1 gallon of straight coolant (the system holds about 2 gallons of 50:50 mix, so this works out if you have mostly water in the system after troubleshooting and repair.
Hard to guess which part let go, but it doesn't sound like a subtle leak, so should be easy to spot.
If you haven't replaced all the other hoses, I would think about doing that now.
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04-08-2016, 09:09 AM
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