Clear Antifreeze
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From: Fitzpatrick Alabama
Clear Antifreeze
I just bought another Ford and I opened the radiator and it was clear, like water, but I put a tester down in it, all the ball floated like antifreeze! What in the world???????? That makes no sense. Is there some new crap I've never heard of?
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You should also check it with the Fleet-guard 3 way test strips for the Nitrates and Molybdate levels as you do not want the cooling system side of the block to eat a hole into the piston cylinder wall on #8, and then after you sleeve #8 a month later it stars leaking into #7!
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has nothing to do with a particular antifreeze, but several years back when Tupelo mississippi started getting water supply from Tenn-Tom waterway, a friend of mine was cleaning his tester with tap water to get ready to check radiators and lo and behold, the tester floated all the ***** in the tester. didn't give us a lot of confidence in what we were drinking, to say the least. and yeah, the tester was not malfunctioning. we stuck it in the radiator and only 1 ball floated. just an aside, but something to think about.
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i have seen some of the reddish precharged sca coolants lose there color and go clear after awhile
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Evan's Waterless Coolant doesn't have much colour to it, but most of us that run that stuff have stickers or other marks under the hood so nobody tries to mix anything with it ( at $30 a gal, you don't want to contaminate the stuff)
The G0-5 coolant doesn't have much colour to it either, just a slight yellowish tinge.
The G0-5 coolant doesn't have much colour to it either, just a slight yellowish tinge.
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Well, after I put in the new green coolant and water (50% each) I tested it and it showed 0 and 0 for both, then after adding 2 bottles it went to the minimum part of the scale, and adding one more put it right near the maximum.
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Originally Posted by archangel
Well, after I put in the new green coolant and water (50% each) I tested it and it showed 0 and 0 for both, then after adding 2 bottles
newer warranted ones tha have to use Extended Life;
OAT; Dexcool or orange juice with alc (screwdriver) or
whatever you call it.
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Originally Posted by lowell75
Bottles of what?
It is a special treatment that is added to standard coolant to bring it up to commercial Diesel specification, and is something that MUST NOT be neglected on an International 6.9 or 7.3.
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