Best way to drain my custom loop.

[Glacius]

Hey All, as per a previous post of mine I have a nasty buildup of well not to sure what it is but something in my bay pump/res and in order to shift this I have Mayhem sending me out a cleaning kit but this requires me to drain the fluid from my system 3-4 times and when i built my system as it was my first I stupidly didn't think about how an earth or what is the easiest way to remove all the fluid.

Few pictures below showing the system as it is now, sadly the bay pump/res can only be removed from the front of the case and all the pipes don't really any any length on.

Any help would be great.

Regards

 

[BattFink]

By the looks of it you're best bet would be to remove the PSU (just as a precaution).

Put the computer in a bath, get a hose clamp and clamp it on the hose from the GPU to the Rad & then pop the fitting off & hold it out of the case, remove the clamp & allow it to drain

Better still, if you can undo the screws holding the radiator & move it out the case as much as you can.

 

[Ploppy2k3]

Better still, if you can undo the screws holding the radiator & move it out the case as much as you can.

+1 for that.

it looks like you will get enough wiggle room to push the rad outside the case. let the de-cheesing befin!

 

[Pgreenwo]

Yep - looks like the best option as you have a good length of tube to the bottom rad. Radiator out and snip the tube over a bowl or pan.

 

[canuseemygrapes]

get a friend to hold the gfx card out of the socket to give that little bit more space for the bottom rad to come out of the case.

upon removal of the bottom hose the water will come from the gfx but also up from the rad.

 

[DJ_Bucho]

I have to agree with 'Pgreenwo', the bottom rad appears to have a good amount of slack on the tubing so I'd remove that rad from the case. Remove the fans from the rad and then carefully remove one of the tubes from the rad.