Wevsspot,

(face palm) I responded thinking of how I put my loop into my CM Stacker. I have the original Stacker. I have the option of putting the power supply at the top or bottom of the case. I keep my power supply at the top of the case.

I removed the back plate on the bottom of the case and pass through the blocks and hoses the opening. I keep the 360 on a rad box outside the case. It's a very simple, straight forward solution that makes for removing the loop very easy.

In your case, your power supply sits at the bottom of the case and you route the tubing through a pci slot. Thanks for the pic of your rig. I didn't realize that you had to build the loop in place.

I have tried bleeding the 360 without removing it. It takes much longer. What I did was throttle the pump on / off to move the air bubbles to the rad. I left the stopper off to see the bubbles coming up. That worked until I had very small fine bubbles. I worked those out by slightly over filling the rad, jogging the power on/off, then releasing the pressure from the rad by removing the stopper. Repeated this for about 15 minutes and repeated over a few days. I ended up getting out 95-98% of the tiniest bubbles. Every once in a while I hear one of those ticks / pings.

In my earlier post, what I meant by a reverse miniscus, was that I over filled the rad a small amount to the point of where the water was just ready to overflow from the fill port. This guaranteed that no air would get into the rad when closing the stopper.

The one draw back to Swiftech's rad / res design, is that if one builds the loop in place, it's almost impossible to remove all the air from the loop. I had a 220 rad / res and found that I really needed a separate res or T-line to remove 100% of the air from the loop.

For me, the 360 is pretty convenient, easy to remove and maintain which is what I was after. HOWEVER, it only remains that way if I use my current case. If I changed my case to something similar to your case, (knowing what I know now)I'd stick with a separate reservoir solution.