Re:coolant woes

[Leah Mueller <muellerl@cadvision.com>]

Luke, hopefully others will have more help with this for you, but I was
about to do the same, when my mechanic said NOT to run chemicals through
the cooling system. He said that the rad would fall apart.  I hope this is
not the case for you.  When I read the instructions on these cleaners here
in Canada it read to drain system, add water, keep in the system for only
10 minutes with water and do double flushes with water afterwards before
putting in the coolant mixture again. 

>Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:50:39 +1300
>From: Luke P <lukep@ihug.co.nz>
>Subject: coolant woes
>
>Somebody may have btdt and be able to help me out.
>
>The vehicle in question is an 88 4cyl 80.
>
>Recently I ran some Prestone radiator cleaner thru the car as the
>previous owners had sadly neglected the poor old girl.
>I adhered closely to the instructions and ran the car for about 6 hours
>with it in. I then drained the cooling system totally and added pure
>water as per the instructions for 4 hours.