Coolant draincock?

[TheDeacon]

I'm sick of splattering coolant all over (and being unable to reuse most of it) when draining my radiator. Are there any products or projects out there where someone has replaced the stock radiator drain plug (the plastic screw) with a draincock & hose?

I'd like to be able to have an easy/no-mess way to drain the coolant out of my radiator and into some containers for re-use, without making a big mess of coolant along the "bat wing" under the car, and without contaminating the coolant by having it hit various (dirty) parts of the underbelly. I'm sure I'm not the first one to think this, but searching so far hasn't turned up much.

[thekidd]

Havent drained my radiator the normal way, was putting new hoses on and drained it that way. But what about a hose of some sort? Like the kind that you would bleed brakes, a small 10'' plastic hose or some thing like that?

[TheDeacon]

Right, a short hose is what I was thinking. Problem is I can't think of any way to attach the hose to the stock plastic screw that's down there. That's what got me thinking about a screw-in draincock with the ability to attach a hose on the outlet side. I guess I could try to measure the thread pitch and see if I can find something that way. I just can't believe I'm the first person to want to do this.

[thekidd]

Maybee the local hardwarestore has some thing, ACE, Home Depote, Seras, etc... Asmall peice of PVC that you can screw in there