Sorry guy, but I have to disagree, that "green is bad"
....better do some homework, it has nothing to
do with the anti-frezze.  The problem is the water
that you add to it.  Check the archieves.
                                       ERic

Mark Seifert wrote:

> flush that green stuff out of there. if you dont want to buy the blue
> kind,
> you can just use dex-cool (orange or red) but it's expensive too. the
> previous owner of my vanagon used green and when i pulled the heads off,
> there was extreme pitting on the surface, and the pipes on the sides
> of the
> heads had holes through them. green is bad.
>
>
>> From: Scott Charles <ve7fyc@SHAW.CA>
>> Reply-To: Scott Charles <ve7fyc@SHAW.CA>
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Phosphate free anti-freeze.
>> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:51:32 -0700
>>
>> Does any one know if ALL METALS anti-freeze ( i.e. Prestone )can be used
>> instead of the Phosphate free stuff  Volkswagon sells.
>> My Westy ( 84's ) Vanagon has typical green anti-freeze instead of
>> the blue stuff VW sells.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Scott
>> ve7fyc@shaw.ca
>
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