So you would start a huge thread based on what is essentially food coloring?

Is it Friday?

The color is effing meaningless, the contents are not.

tom

On 28 Apr 2004 at 21:40, Daniel L. Katz wrote:

> gary:
>
> also, and i hope this does start a huge thread, i would not use orange
> stuff. orange stuff can turn coolant into jell in a dirty, corroded, well
> worn system. if previous coolant was vw blue, i would definitely stick
> with that; if it was green, i would stick with nominal green chemistry,
> and use a good quality meat and potatoes green anti-freeze, such as sold
> by napa. at this point, i recommend circulating lots and lots of pure,
> clean water through that system and then adding blue or green stuff as
> needed.
>
> dan
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:11:59 -0700, gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> >I have been dealing with a conditon that I believe to
> >be a plugged radiator.   I have ruled out most other
> >cheaper fixes.   Over the past week I have isolated
> >the radiator at the point of the rear most end of the
> >big pipes and plugged them with corks and soaked the
> >isolated system with 0.2M citric acid for a week.
> >Flushing the system with hot water under house
> >pressure gave a flow rate about 6 gallons per second.
> >The first flush was very black and showed evidence of
> >bits of aluminum from what I am hoping to be some
> >after market sealer rather than the radiator itself.
> >After flushing the system I filled with the orange
> >stuff.   What I find intersting about the vanagon
> >coolant system is that the flow rate for water alone
> >is much faster than with antifreeze added.   This is
> >reflected well by the (temperature at idle as seen by
> >the gauge) TAI.
> >The TAI with water alone is much lower and at position
> >determined by the thermostat.   The low speed fan has
> >no problem keeping the engine temperature on the red
> >light dot even on a very hot day.   Once you add
> >antifreeze the TAI goes up above the light unless you
> >increase the rpm.   The TIA on a hot day(about 95)
> >will respond more slowly to the cooling affect of the
> >low speed fan.
> >   My question is would I be better off adding less
> >antifreeze and more water and perhaps adding some
> >after market corrosion inhibitor and water pump
> >lubricant?   thanks gary
> >
> >
> >
> >
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