Going off the Gold standard

[james accordino]

--- cobram at juno.com wrote:
> If your car is leaking to the point of making gallon
> purchases a
> necessity, it's time to fix the problem, because it
> will end up costing
> you much more in the end.  I had a Pentosin leak or
> two that I just kept
> topping off till I could get around to fixing it. 
> The green gold eats
> away at all the rubber it comes in contact with, so
> my leak ended up
> costing me front and rear subframe bushings, a
> swollen coolant hose or
> two,  and I suspect it had a hand in weakening the
> already brittle OEM
> plastic radiator, among other things.  
> 
That's another excellent point I forgot about.  On my
cars it mainly affected the breather hoses.  It turned
one into black glop.  It also attracts dirt like a
magnet.  I had "sandbars" on some of the frame panels
that were an inch deep.  Oily, sandy sludge
everywhere!  It makes me shudder thinking about that
again.

Jim Accordino