[V8] Need advice and help

[Charles Wurts]

Thanks for setting me straight.  Nothing worse than not knowing what 
one doesn't know.


On Mar 22, 2005, at 8:57 PM, cobram at juno.com wrote:

> Charles Wurts <cwurts12 at mindspring.com> writes:
>
>>> therefore coolant is being circulated correct? He filled it with
>>> the generic green stuff despite me paying him to fill it with the
>
>> As for the green stuff, I would replace it ASAP;  most green
>> stuff isn't friendly with aluminum.
>
> Only if the green stuff is NOS from the 1960's.  Check the Qlist
> archives, the topic was beaten to death a while back, nice write up by 
> a
> Chemist in thread somewhere.  Good quality "green stuff" like Prestone 
> is
> just fine, if it wasn't,  I'm sure I would have noticed something in 
> the
> 10+ years my V8Q and the 17+ years my 5KS has been running on the 
> stuff.
>
> No matter what you decide to use, the important thing is to change the
> coolant every year or two.
>
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
>