Coolant Flush on a 3rd Gen.
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The water will not eat anything. The reason for using distilled or dionized water is that there are no metals/minerals in them that will collect on the surface of metals that causes rusting, gumming, and eventually logging the coolant system.
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The reason the manual says to only add a 50:50 mix is there is no real reason to do this on a clean system. What you did is way over kill and I guess is reasonable if you have all day with nothing to do but it is not necessary unless the system is dirty.
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w/ most of my driving between fl and tn, what coolant mixture should i run? 50:50? also, do they actually have ways to measure this other than the floating ball tool you stick in the radiator? i'll be flushing my radiator here in a couple months and installing a Opie bypass kit at the same time.
The min coolant per Dodge is 44%.
"If ANY of these apply to you then change your
coolant every 102,000 miles (163 000 km) or 60 months,
whichever comes first"
"Flush and replace engine coolant."
Thats telling you to do more than drain and fill. Drain and fill only changes ~60% of the coolant.
The best reason I can figure it says 50/50 is that the service manual assumes you are draining the coolant for other repairs, not for a coolant service or flush.
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What is your plan or strategy for the coolant filter as far as coolant maintenance is concerned?
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The filter is just preventitve, I am not trying to get any more out of the coolant.
Also there are filters with additives, but they are not HOAT additives, so the filter I have is just a filter no chem additive.
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The supplemental coolant additives found in various coolant filters bear little relationship to the formulations in various ASTM spec D-3306 automotive anti-freeze products on the market, of which Zerex G-05 is just one of many low-silicate HOAT derivitives.
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So only changing ~60% of the coolant is reasonable? It was only a couple hour process, not too bad at all actually.
"If ANY of these apply to you then change your
coolant every 102,000 miles (163 000 km) or 60 months,
whichever comes first"
"Flush and replace engine coolant."
Thats telling you to do more than drain and fill. Drain and fill only changes ~60% of the coolant.
The best reason I can figure it says 50/50 is that the service manual assumes you are draining the coolant for other repairs, not for a coolant service or flush.
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You don't have to do it this way, it's up to the person, (how **** he is I guess) but I'll be doing like AH when the time comes and you can't compare this to just draining your oil, when you do that you get all the oil, cracking the rad drain and letting it flow you'll only get half the coolant.
Just draining and refilling would be like draining only half your oil and not the filter when doing an oil change.
Just draining and refilling would be like draining only half your oil and not the filter when doing an oil change.
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Ace....I just wanted to say it's good to see you back! You were gone for a long time. Even if I don't always agree with everything you say, you have some good insight and advice to offer. Very mechanically inclined! Anyway, welcome back.
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