Type-44: 200q cooling system flush/fill tips.

[Larry C Leung]

I used water wetter with a 45/55% H2O/EG mixture. Not notable diff in
operating temps in street driving. Oh well.

LL - NY

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:38:35 -0500 Marc Swanson
<marcswanson at mediaone.net> writes:
>> I'll have to check in the Bentley..I could swear there was more to
>> it, but then again, I've got the Odd One with the aux radiator and
>> all that wonderful extra stuff.  If not, that's -fine- by me, I've
>> got to do my coolant sometime soon too :-)
>
>
>The basic idea is water in at the top, water out at the bottom,
>opening all
>possible valves inbetween.  If you have auxilliary radiators and such
>in the
>mix just remove them from the block "circuit" and flush them
>seperately.
>
>
>> To make matters worse, Evans NPG+,
>> which I'm going to give a shot, requires -all- water be out of the
>> system.  Blaaaaah.
>
>seems like more effort than it is worth.  if you are boiling over try
>running
>more water than coolant (only applicable to summer months!).  Either
>that or
>Redline water wetter maybe?  Heck I'd even go to a bigger radiator
>before
>running that stuff from the stories I've heard.
>
>
>> >If you flush your radiator and it causes a leak you either hit it
>with WAY
>> >too much pressure or it was going to leak anyway (or already
>was?).
>>
>> Oops...used the wrong words there.  "Solutions" meant chemical
>> flushes, not methods/procedures for flushing the system :-)
>
>ahh totally different issue.  yes, nasty chemicals might open holes
>that were
>otherwise not there before!
>
>-Marc-
>87 4ktq
>88 90q