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Coolant tank - why so many baffles inside it? (refill rant)

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Re: Coolant tank - why so many baffles inside it? (refill rant)

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850forum wrote: 30 Aug 2022, 16:37 what is the box in front of the coolant tank? The connector in the rear is detached so its sucking or blowing atmospheric air somewhere.

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That's the ECU box; there is also a TCU in there. That duct hole/duct (duct is missing on your car) exhausts the cabin air that is used to cool the ECU and TCU. Might want to reinstate it e.g. from a junkyard item if you can find it.
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scot850 wrote: 06 Sep 2022, 19:35 I can't recall on an 850 or 98 V/S/C70. I seem to recall it has a stupid tang on it you have to figure out how to move inward to the bottle body to remove it, and by sliding the bottle upward on the slider channels.
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Yea that's what it looks like. Now if I can also remove that air handling box to the front, I can get to the stupid windshield washer filter - the tube on the bottom requires some access to pull off & especially to replace. Why does it have TWO tube out the top, that are just vented? I can understand one so the piston can move, but two ?
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