[V8] Who's had a bad had gasket?

[cobram at juno.com]

Anything but the run of the mill green (blue or whatever), safe for
aluminum coolant is a waste of money.  This was beaten to death on the
main list a while back, with a resident industrial chemist explaining it.
 I've been running the "evil green" Prestone in all my Audi's (including
2 V8Q's) for over 2 decades now (starting with my '84 5KS and lesser '82
5K before that), if something was going to happen, I figure it should
have by now.  
Never had a head gasket problem on any of them.  Any engine that starts
blowing head gaskets en mass is a design, manufacture or material flaw,
IMHO.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
"God's a kid with an ant farm. He's not planning anything."
 
"toml99 at todomundo.com" <toml99 at todomundo.com> writes:
> Hey, was just thinking about stuff, and was wondering on a percentage 
>  
> base, who's had a head gasket problem?.....Most steel block/aluminum 
>  
> head cars have issues around 150K, and was reading on the Saab site  
> 
> tonight that many are going to a phosphate-free type of coolant.   
> Pearl car still has the green coolant in it(evil), and plan to fix   
> 
> that this weekend.  Don't hear of a lot of people complaining of 
> head  
> gasket issues with the v8....(good thing).  With a properly  
> maintained car, who's had a head gasket issue?.....Just looking for  
> 
> another reason to validate our obsession.........Tom