Oily Balls? (Don't start with me...)

["Al Powell" <APOWELL@agcom.tamu.edu>]

The lovely & talented dave Head quoth: 

> It appears that the "Great Experiment" in the use of Water Wetter for my
> Audi did not just end in failure - but near heart failure. Confirmed by
> Stediric, who remembered he had seen this phenom before - mixing this stuff
> with non phosphate anti freeze produces little brown oily balls that float
> around in yer coolant - making you swear that you've just tossed yer head
> gasket.
> 
> Not a recommended product by me, thank you very much. Redline will get a
> phone call from me next week. I was about hours away from blowing close to
> 300.00 on parts in preparation for this job - and dreading every second of it!

Say WHAT????????????????   I have two bottles of Watter Wetter in the 
garage - and Prestone 4/60 non-phosphate antifreeze installed in both 
the Audi and the 280ZXT.  Are you saying that this is a NO-GO 
proposition? Or just that you have to put up with "Yucky-looking" 
(technical term) substances in the cooling system?

Because nothing is likely to incline me to dump that antifreeze and 
return to a phosphate-based product!

Also - I have shared the discussion about phosphate antifreeze with 
the Datsun Z-car list, as they also use aluminum heads.  If there is 
a potential problem, I want to inform them of the specifics.

So - Eric and Dave, "You gotta-lotta 'splaining to do!"  Whassa story?


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