Purple power for coolant flush?
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coolant is poison, yes please take it to somebody that recycles. Smells and tastes sweet, animals like it a lot, kills them. My dog got a couple licks of some that was on the street before I saw it. Vet said have her drink hydrogen peroxide, caused her to vomit, did the trick.
Ford uses Simple Green HD, which is purple. This is necessary when there's an oil leak into the coolant. Then replacing all the rubber in the cooling system.
Then use Restore.
Then use VC-9 or Restore Plus.
Then backflush the oil cooler, radiator and heater.
Then flush with distilled.
Then add new coolant. You need concentrate because there will still be 2 gallons or more of the last fill, hopefully just distilled water if you've done it right. But you can't get the mix to 50/50 unless you use concentrate. The premix is all I could find most places, had to search for concentrated EC-1 ELC.
Ford uses Simple Green HD, which is purple. This is necessary when there's an oil leak into the coolant. Then replacing all the rubber in the cooling system.
Then use Restore.
Then use VC-9 or Restore Plus.
Then backflush the oil cooler, radiator and heater.
Then flush with distilled.
Then add new coolant. You need concentrate because there will still be 2 gallons or more of the last fill, hopefully just distilled water if you've done it right. But you can't get the mix to 50/50 unless you use concentrate. The premix is all I could find most places, had to search for concentrated EC-1 ELC.
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Motorcraft® Cooling System Components and Caps
If you want to skip ahead...about 2:30 into the video it talks about Ford Gold, which is what is in our trucks from KTP. If your running something else...I have no clue what it's made of.
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I actually discovered the coolant looked unusually darker last week and noticed a thin film of that oil shine on the surface of the coolant. That was enough for me to ground my truck in my garage. It's not a substantial change in color, it just has a darker tint so I suppose the leak's not too bad.
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Well, i'm sure you guys probably are wondering where my updates/pics are. I'm actually dealing with the police right now because somebody really liked the toolbox in my garage where I keep all my tools and decided to steal it. Luckily, I hadn't gotten too far into the job where my tools were needed, I only did the radiator flush on Friday but now have the oil cooler/egr delete sittin here and me tool-less. Unless they find my stuff soon, I might have to take it to the shop and have my buddy put em in for me. I'll just see what happens.
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Yeah I was pretty livid that morning, I live in a small town and theft/break ins aren't that common. I really wanted to those XP though. I guess on the bright side, havin my buddy at the shop do em both for me this week will give me more time for productivity elsewhere, maybe lookin at new tires
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