New EGR Cooler Coolant Tip - milk jugs and plastic bottles

The good news: I found a simple Prius-dogma way to drain the coolant without going down to the radiator spigot or spilling everything into the engine.

The bad news: I dropped a 12mm socket and the metal gasket w/ clip between the EGR cooler / engine. I can't see them and have no idea how to retrieve them from the bottom of the engine bay. I'm pretty sure they dropped to the bottom...this is disaster.

EGR coolant tip:
1. Get yourself an empty milk jug (or 2L soda bottle) and a few plastic water bottles.
2. Cut the tops off of each bottle
3. Find the small coolant tube coming out of the throttle bottle to the EGR cooler
4. Hold the large bottle with cutoff top next to it
5. Disconnect the tube and swing it ontop of the large bottle...let it drain
6. Use the small plastic water bottles in the same fashion for the other lines (these bottles are smaller and fit in the tighter spaces). Most of the coolant has been drained already so there won't be much left in the other lines.
7. Empty the large jug and any small bottles into a stock water bottle for storage so you can pour it back later.

This worked out really well for me and didn't leave any spills. You can also see how much coolant was stored in the EGR coolant area - about 15oz. I've got my cooler sitting in Mendel's suggested oxyclean solution in a bucket and hope to blast it out tomorrow with a pressure washer.