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Subject:Re: Can you run without coolant...
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:03:29 -0500

At 11:25 AM 12/15/2010, John Rodgers wrote:
>Just as an aside - my Alaska business partners kid drove an Isuzu diesel
>from Anchorage to Kenai (about 150 miles) with no coolant in the engine
>and it didn't destroy the thing. Didn't phase it in fact. He fixed the
>problem - broken/burst coolant hose - and drove it another couple of
>years. It was really cold when he did this stunt -(like -35F) - which
>I'm sure made the difference in the survival of that engine.

  I imagine the iron block helped as well...

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