Coolant flush yesterday

[Gumby]

I demonstrated coolant flushes yesterday on the 80 for the students. It got 5 flushes during the course of the day.

I flush it once every two years and replace with fresh silicate antifreeze and a new t-stat.

141,000 miles. Only 40,000 in the last five years. Lots of short trip city driving.

The radiator core looks brand new. No silicate deposits on the tubes at all.

The first time I flushed it at 70,000 in 2000 I flushed out gobs of OAT deposits. The overflow was caked with the crap. I flushed it again in 01 and 02 and every two years since. No deposits at all today of any kind.

No indication of the unmentionable issue. I was sure to buy parts from CDan this week to pay my tithe to the shaman. I forgot to order a new cap. I suppose I will when I order a p/s pump replacement kit shortly.

40,000 on the PHH replacement and no problems.

 

[e9999]

what fresh silicate antifreeze was that?


nice of you to sacrifice your rig for the student's education...!

 

[IdahoDoug]

Gumby, Gumby, Gumby. Haven't you learned by now that mentioning the unmentionable is like "messing around with Big Jim" (ya gotta be old to remember that song - "Ya don't spit into the wind, ya don't pull on Superman's cape, and ya don't mess around with Big Jim..."

Anyhow, you're toast now. You've loosened the packed in deposits around #6 that were preventing further migration into the HG and I predict a Christmas tool purchase special....


DougM

 

[DTAYLOR]

Shall we go ahead and give him a shopping list?

 

[IdahoDoug]

Head Gasket DVD's already on the way. I didn't have to do a thing - darn thing jumped out of a drawer, addressed itself and sauntered off to the post office... I'm starting to understand what it's like to be Cdan. (cough)....

DougM

 

[alia176]

It's a good thing that I already have the DVD since my HG blew up last week! It's time for a road trip Gumby!!!

Ali

 

[Gumby]

what fresh silicate antifreeze was that?


nice of you to sacrifice your rig for the student's education...!

Regular old Prestone green stuff.

I could use a shop car and flush the coolant in that, but that'd be a waste of time and money. Next semester and both semesters next year I'll scare up somebody else's car to do it on. This semester it was my turn.

I didn't mention any unmentionables, not even by initials. I tithed to CDan and this past weekend two of my students sacrificed their Xjs to the mud gods. I'm as safe as can be.

 

[Gumby]

It's a good thing that I already have the DVD since my HG blew up last week! It's time for a road trip Gumby!!!

Ali

A road trip might just do the trick

 

[woody]

Head Gasket DVD's already on the way. I didn't have to do a thing - darn thing jumped out of a drawer, addressed itself and sauntered off to the post office... I'm starting to understand what it's like to be Cdan. (cough)....

DougM

with my luck lately, two of those jumped out....