On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Patrick Larsen wrote:

> At 12:10 PM 3/31/98 -0500, EMZ wrote:
> >> >  THE PROBLEM IS THE WATER THAT IS USED WITH THE ANTI-FREEZE
> >> >!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >> >My Vanagon is proof of this. I did just this, put 70,000 miles
> >> >on the gasket job and not one problem. Never bothered with the
> >> >anti-freeze after that.
> --snip--
> >     Pure H20 and anti-freeze is the best. Prestone is now selling
> >     water for cooling systems. It is 99.9 % H2O. You can use any
> >     anti-freeze you want, but make sure you use pure H2O with it.
>
>
> --snip--
>
> This is an extremely bold claim. Especially if it is based on a sample size
> of one in an experiment that isn't even close to finished. Until this
> *experiment* is finished (head gasket failure, or tear down and inspect
> heads) it doesn't really mean much. And even then, a sample of one is
> pretty much meaningless, hell, there are waterboxers with over 150K that
> haven't had head gasket failures. If we took one example from all the stats
> people have been posting recently, the waterboxer might look extremely
> reliable (>150k before failure) or extremely unreliable (<30k before
> failure). If you actually have evidence that I will never have a problem
> again by simply using deionized water, then I would be interested in seeing
> it.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Patrick L. Larsen
> Water Center-University of Nebraska

     Patrick,
     This is number 8 in the head gaskets that I am finishing.
I can only determine that out of 7 completed. I have only seen
1 ever again. Mine. I know of 3 that have gone over 60,000 mile
without any other problem, but without being there, I can not
speak for what has happened in the mean time. None have failed
to my knowledge. All have gotten my TLC. All have been hear
for over 3 weeks, being checkout, pulled apart, fixed, and run
for 1 week to get the bugs out. None have  been Syncros. 1 automatic.
If I had more time I can go on....

   Stay in school....you need it./...,,,wrong
   change your major... go to law school!
                                 Eric