Cold weather coming

[Tom maxwell]

My question is simple....
Extreme cold coming and I'm protected to -10 on the antifreeze engine and radi ator.
To play it safe, I opened the petcock on the low radiator tube to hose.
Drained all the fluid that would come out.
Is this enough to protect the engine. The reason I did this is because in the cars current location, I can't run the engine.
I believe I'm ok temperature wise, but I was wondering if there are areas in the engine that will not drain.
No heat in the garage.
Tom

[1crosscut]

You are probably fine. As others have said poke a small piece of wire up throgh the hole in the drain cock just to make sure rust hasn't plugged it up leaving a bit of water in there.

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

As long as the engine is setting fairly level, how you drained it will be adequate. (Remember your battery too.)

[Tom maxwell]

Thanks for the quick answer. I also removed the tube is I know all drained out by gravity that can come out.

[Stretch Cab]

I had the garage door up and worked outside today. In the shade it wasn't bad.

[eagle]

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Question for Brent, what did you mean by (Remember your battery too.) ???? A battery will only freeze if its dead, and if its dead very long, cold or not, its junk anyway. Just wondered what I'm missing...

[whirnot]

Even if you didn't get it all out, and by chance you did get some freezing, there aren't any passages completely full that expansion would cause a problem.