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What is the correct glycol and pH for the coolant? My coolant is 25% and 8.0. I feel like the glycol is low. Should I drain some off and add concentrate?
 
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8.6--9.2 as per Schaeffers coalant treatment instructions.
 
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What is the correct glycol and pH for the coolant? My coolant is 25% and 8.0. I feel like the glycol is low. Should I drain some off and add concentrate?
Conventional "green" coolant? OAT ELC?

pH is a good indicator of the condition of your ELC. Right out of the bottle the pH of ELC will be considerably lower than conventional (green) coolants. Say a pH of 8.3 for ELC and 10.5 for conventional.

A key point here is that you really have to know the original/baseline pH of the type of coolant you have when it is new (and diluted with H2O) to compare a later test of pH with. You can test the pH (after you mix with H2O) and write it down somewhere when you switch out to the ELC.
Info from Gooch.

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Its Motorcraft Gold coolant.
 
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I tested the coolant and it is 45-50% and 7.0pH
 
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