Re: How is coolant oil based!?!

[nscbarry@mail.msy.bellsouth.net]

Coolant is primarily ethylene glycol, actually an alcohol, the oily texture
prob. comes from the additives to prevent corrosion, and the like. The
ethylene glycol is what gives coolant that sickeningly sweet odor you smell
when you blow a hose, or have some other leak in the system.

Richard Haroutunian wrote:

> well, i don't know -- i'm just going by what someone told me.. i don;t
> think he meant it'
> s 'oil-based' i think he meant that coolant has an oily texture because
> it's made up of some 'ethyl' something-or-other that gives it an oily
> texture.