Hiya! Definitely a good plan, and also give it the system a flush out with a hose pipe, i would do it just before you swap the rad personnally. There is a good method on the forum from Qinteq somwhere, as I had a petrol not totally familiar, but essentially hose in the header tank, engine running to pump it round, and bottom rad hose partly of for it to escape and rinse through the system. Before that though, as you say, check the rad fans run, but should not be relevant at 70mph.