Hyundai Santa Fe Cooling System Radiator Replacement

You will need: socket heads “for 10”, “for 13”, a key “for 13”, coolant, cleaning cloth, a container with a capacity of at least 10 liters for draining the coolant, a screwdriver with a Phillips blade, pliers.
1. Disconnect a wire from the minus plug of the storage battery.
2. Drain the coolant from the radiator.
3. Squeeze the bent ears of the clamp for attaching the radiator inlet hose ...
4. ... and disconnect the inlet hose from the radiator pipe.
5. Squeeze the bent ears of the fastening clamp, slide the clamp along the hose ...
6. ... and disconnect the outlet hose from the radiator pipe.
7. On vehicles with automatic transmission, squeeze the bent ears of the clamps for fastening the automatic transmission fluid cooling hoses, slide the clamps along the hose ...
8. ... and disconnect the hoses from the pipelines.
NOTE
Plug the automatic transmission fluid cooler hoses and lines to prevent fluid from escaping and debris from entering the system.
9. Remove the radiator electric fans (see "Removing and installing the radiator electric fans of the engine cooling system").
10. Remove the front bumper (see "Removing and installing the front bumper").
11. Remove the hood lock (see "Removing and installing the hood lock").
12. Disconnect the steam outlet hose from the fitting on the radiator filler neck.
13. Turn out on two bolts of fastening of the top support of a radiator from the left and right side.
14. Remove the radiator from the car
15. Examine pillows of support of a radiator, replace strongly deformed or hardened pillows.
16. Rinse the outside of the radiator with a jet of water and dry. If cracks appear on the plastic tanks of the radiator, replace the radiator.
17. Check the tightness of the radiator, for which plug its pipes, supply air to the radiator at a pressure of 1 kgf / cm2 and lower it into a container with water for at least 30 s. Leakage of the radiator is determined by the outgoing air bubbles. If the radiator does not fit into the container as a whole, check it sequentially from all sides.
18. Establish a radiator and all details in an order, the return to removal.
19. Fill in coolant and remove air plugs from the cooling system (see "Replacing the coolant").
Source: Hyundai Santa Fe Owner's Manual, Third Rome Publishing House