dont mix coolants

[Synergy]

my little sister mixed coolants on her laser and so i bled what was left and took it off and its was like hairgel lol. its poured out like off milk!

so yer, use the same brand coolants, dont mix brands cos it could make a gel

[ravofireman]

Bugger the colants, I just run plain water,,

[4runner4mud]

yeah, when it gets hot just find a river crossin!!

[taziiy]

my little sister mixed coolants on her laser and so i bled what was left and took it off and its was like hairgel lol. its poured out like off milk!

so yer, use the same brand coolants, dont mix brands cos it could make a gel

Would of thought that was common knowlege :eek:

[Grimsey]

Its real common when people are changing there coolant to forget to turn the heater on. so they change the coolant all runs fine untill they next turn the heater on and the funky reaction happens and the car gets hot. you really then need to take the radiator out and get it professionally cleaned as im sure it would have blocked a few of the cores up.

[HT]

Bugger the colants, I just run plain water,,

Not a good idea Rav, modern engines have all sorts of metals in them that react in strange, usually unhelpful ways. Think of the problem people have with gutters and roofs, if you put the wrong guttering material on a tin roof, the gutters corrode, quickly and badly! Same with your engine, coolant is designed to be non-corrosive in the weird metallurgical wonder-world that is your engine! Water alone may cool your engine, but it also gives it cancer...

[crankycruiser]

Bugger the colants, I just run plain water,,



i dont run coolant either.. but i do run inhibitor.. stops ur head from eating out...
most coolants have sum sorta inhibitor in them,., thats why its a good idea to run em.

[TassieMav]

Nearly all the Radiator places in Tassie suggest you just run inhibitor rather than actual Coolant (that's my experience anyway) down here. I am assuming you shouldn't mix inhibitor and coolant or types of inhibitor either?

Doesn't help much when you head for the big Island and run into the 35 degree Summer days though! :)

[trains]

The best form of heat transfer is found with pure water.
However to prevent cavitation, and localised boiling spots in the modern heads, corrosion inhibitor is added to reduce the corrosive effects of pure water, and to increase the boiling temp too. Pressure in the cooling system also helps increase the boiling temp. They sometimes have extra additives to prevent head gasket weeps etc, like the holden approved stuff, its basically got a form of chemiweld in it to stop the v6 head gasket issues.

Always flush out the block, hoses, heater core etc before fitting another additive.

I use and reccomend the motorcraft R13c. Have used it in many vehicles and it gives great protection in the cooling system. Usually only 12 bucks or less from traders, or mr ford. much cheaper than the overpriced tectaloy cr@p.

Trains