in the cooling system... I refilled with tap thinking I was gonna drain and replace the radiator and left it that way for 2 months and look at the gunk that has built up.

If i had used distilled water this wouldnt have happend. Now I get to flush it...





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Thats just nasty. Now you got me thinking about changing mine. It's supposed to warm up next week to the 50's, so I guess I know what I be doing.

 

Eww. I have a water filter for my house water and i used that last time i filled up the coolant. Is that the same as distilled? Thanks

 

i think it would be close. thats what i use and i dont have that. steve are you sure you didnt have one too many and put lake water in. JK that sucks. oh well good luck with that.

 

danm and thats only 2 months...



funny you should say that... i was out with my buddy a while back in his truck (94 chevy[:'(] ) and we blew the rad hose and pissed ou all the coolent so we took a cupple roals of eletrical tape and taped it up manny times over and over the hole lol then filled up the rad with the watter out of the ditch to get home...come to think of it he never did tell me he flushed the system out after that lol i hope he did oh well its just a chevy anyways

 

LOL!!!! LMFAO!!!! thats just perfect..ditch water in a chevy coolant system... seems to match well anyway!!!!


isnt distilled water pruified tap water? boiled for certin amount of time to remove any sedaments minerals etc etc etc..... its basically JUST two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (taking a wicked cool chem class this semester!) non of the extra chlorine or minerals you find in your tap thats safe to drink


i just flushed my rad when i was doing the fans and plenum steve... i used this crap from autobone called... crap i cant remember... hell.... trying to think... anyway i think it was made by xerox... not the copier company.... the coolant company... does that ring any bodys bells?

hell anyway... it used that crap that was concentrated and it helped alot!!!! ijust had a rad flush done about 3 months ago and this stuff still pulled out crap that i didnt know was in there....

sorry for the major brainfart meltdown . .but all that thinking that i put into that H2O chem stuff left me fried for the night...

 

distiled water is water that has been boiled at a certan temp (i think its just over boining so just over 100 deg C or 212 def for you americans lol) anways the steam is colected then condenced in a diffrent container thus you are left with pure H2O aka distiled water and all the outher crap is left in the bottem of the pot that it was boiled in

 

Well, looks like I have to find out if the rad is leaking or not and fix it. cant go leaving that crap in there to accumulate. My motor runs really cool and stays around the 180~185 mark w/o any problems... i'd like it to stay that way.

 

i know becool makes good aftermarket rads... thats about it that i know of for rads

 

there you go you put all that junk in there to plug the leak....right