Re: heater cores?

[Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>]

	Sure, vinegar.  Also, ask your wife what she uses to clean the lime
deposits in the bathroom.  Lime Away and/or CLR and/or Rust Off are what we
use in our house.  Plug the bottom hose and let it soak, better activity
when warm.  Flush well.  This homebrew should even work in the radiator but
I would think you'd want to use a specialty mixture for that (which, hey,
would get the HC as well)....

At 04:39 PM 10/7/1998 ,  Dan Simoes was inspired to say:
>  What I'm wondering is this: if it's possible that the
>  heater core is gunked up inside, to the point where
>  heat doesn't come out that well, yet it still flows
>  enough.  This could be due to mineral deposits.
>  
>  So, two questions:
>  - is there anything that I could run through the core to
>    eat away the deposits?
>  - is this a common failure mode for a CQ core?  In my experience,
>    cores either work, or they leak.


Cheers,
	Richard
	88 90Q - <insert pithy witticism here>
	88 Golf GTi - PRO Rally