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I'm going to go ahead and put the mechanical fan back on,but I have to wait til next week because me and my cosin have to make one outof fiber glass because we broke the original one.
Distilled water will not prevent ionization, only deionized water will and it is not commonly available. Read here about different antifreeze colors: Car Talk
You may need to boil out your engine block (not sure if this is correct terminology). Also, as horrible as it is to imagine, turning on the heater full tilt, fan on high, open all windows and doors, and hood up will help.
Kind of a bad example. I have no qualms with tap water. I'll drink it, I cook with it, shower in it... What the heck kind of tap water do you have that you are afraid to drink it?!
Well, that may be...but tap water does have nasty stuff in it anyhow.
Oh, only the dirtest river on the east coast from the industrial revolution.
Our work truck at SFA (i think its a 77) was having the same problem...we ran some CLR through the cooling system. After flushing out the CLR (and all the crap it cleaned out) it runs just fine w/no temp rise during extended idle times in our crazy texas heat