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• Re: mean greenie Coolant pouring from tail pipe
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:47:15 -0800
  ...If you are using hard tap water, then phosphates and silicates will bind with them and settle out of solution. The problem is compounded...
• Re: Replace trans oil cooler? 90 Vanagon automatic
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:10:51 -0500
  ...The major issue with standard coolant is the phosphates and silicates coming out of solution when used with "hard" water. This is the hard...
• cooling system diagnostic help? Long, lots of info about whats been done so far.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:03:50 -0700
  ...Said "Good for protection of all metals, including aluminum"...It also says (now that I read the small print..contains Phosphates and Silicates) That...
• Re: mean greenie Coolant pouring from tail pipe
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:01:26 -0800
  ...If you are using hard tap water, then phosphates and silicates will >>bind with them and settle out of solution. The problem is compounded...
• Re: cooling system diagnostic help? Long, lots of info about whats been done so far.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:33:29 -0700
  ...says (now that I read the small print..contains Phosphates and Silicates)� That crap in the overflow tank looks suspiciously like silicate...sandy looking...
• Re: blue coolant?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 09 Apr 94 21:56:40 CDT
  ...Engine coolant should be REPLACED every two (2) years to refresh the silicates and other corrosion inhibitors contained in the coolant. He was not...
• Re: Electric Water Pump
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:55:56 -0500
  ...As for anti freeze having abrasives, why else would silica and silicates, (beach sand) be an ingredient. Have you taken a part cooling systems...
• FWIW: coolant article (v.long)
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:55:48 -0800
  ...The silicates form a protective coating on metal surfaces and are especially good at protecting aluminum. To ensure that the coolant remains alkaline for...
• Re: Electric Water Pump
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:43:23 -0800
  ...That poor alternator may be doing 10,000 rpm. > > > As for anti freeze having abrasives, why else would silica and silicates, > (beach sand) be...
• Antifreeze+phosphate article
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Fri, 6 Oct 1995 08:25:42 CST6CDT
  ...They could meet Ford and forthcoming GM standards only with an antifreeze that contained phosphate and silicates. Silicate is an established inhibitor of aluminum...
• Re: Electric Water Pump
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:25:42 -0800
  ...As for anti freeze having abrasives, why else would silica and silicates, (beach sand) be an ingredient. Have you taken a part cooling systems...
• Re: Was E15 fuel, now Snake Oil-Cascade in the coolant!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:21:52 -0500
  OK so we make sure we do not antifreeze with phosphates or silicates because they are bad. In reality the only problem with them...
• Cooling Systems
  Historical mailing list - Dan Aldrich
  Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:01:21 -0700
  ...Phosphates and silicates and produced >aluminum oxides fall out of suspension building up and promoting >electrolysis, pitting of the aluminum surfaces and the main...
• *very long* All you need to know on Synthetic oil
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:32:53 CST6CDT
  ...Water Wetter has a high Ph, but also has silicates, so it can be used in aluminium radiators. However, if left for a long...
• Here's my article (written for Australian Jaguar owners, where anti-freeze
  Historical mailing list
  10 Oct 1994 05:33:07 GMT
  ...and include primary, secondary and tertiary amines; organic and inorganic phosphates, silicates cresols and other phenolic substances; a wide variety of sulphur compounds; soaps...