Hard to tell from the pictures, but it could just be a precipitate from the
water they used to mix in with the coolant - looks a lot like manganese -

-Ben

On 11/21/07 2:14 PM, "Allan Streib" <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU> wrote:

> Looks like Death-Cool -- er Dex-Cool -- "mud" to me.  Was it running
> the orange stuff?  When was it last changed?
>
> Allan
>
> neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> writes:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Hopefully people aren't getting fed up with my questions!
>>
>> So..... I started pulling stuff off my 1.9 WBX.
>>
>> Found this stuff:
>>
>> http://vanagonlinks.googlepages.com/coolantsludge
>>
>> in the coolant reservoir.
>>
>