Antifreeze ripoff
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Interesting. No one ever told me you had to use distilled water in the radiator. I can't count the times in my life that I've filled up a radiator with a water hose. Never on THIS truck, but on many in the past.
On a related topic, how often should the radiator be drained and flushed? My truck has 82,000 miles on it and still has the original coolant in it.
On a related topic, how often should the radiator be drained and flushed? My truck has 82,000 miles on it and still has the original coolant in it.
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Along the sames lines, but on a different topic, it has always amazed me how many ADULTS I rent homes or appartments to don't know how to light a pilot light on a water heater or furnace. In my leases I tell them if I have to come out it is $35 fee.
Attention DTR Parents! Don't let your kids move out of the house until they know how to light a pilot light.
.......and Oh yea! Make sure you tell them where the garbage goes after you put it down a garbage disposal. I had a tenant ask me if she needed to empty it.
Now I'm off my soap box.
Attention DTR Parents! Don't let your kids move out of the house until they know how to light a pilot light.
.......and Oh yea! Make sure you tell them where the garbage goes after you put it down a garbage disposal. I had a tenant ask me if she needed to empty it.
Now I'm off my soap box.
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Interesting. No one ever told me you had to use distilled water in the radiator. I can't count the times in my life that I've filled up a radiator with a water hose. Never on THIS truck, but on many in the past.
On a related topic, how often should the radiator be drained and flushed? My truck has 82,000 miles on it and still has the original coolant in it.
On a related topic, how often should the radiator be drained and flushed? My truck has 82,000 miles on it and still has the original coolant in it.
The class 8 and class 6 trucks I maintain at my part time job get a complete coolant drain (engine block also) every 250k, dca and ph levels checked every 3rd oil change and conditioners added as needed.
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Along the sames lines, but on a different topic, it has always amazed me how many ADULTS I rent homes or appartments to don't know how to light a pilot light on a water heater or furnace. In my leases I tell them if I have to come out it is $35 fee.
Attention DTR Parents! Don't let your kids move out of the house until they know how to light a pilot light.
.......and Oh yea! Make sure you tell them where the garbage goes after you put it down a garbage disposal. I had a tenant ask me if she needed to empty it.
Now I'm off my soap box.
Attention DTR Parents! Don't let your kids move out of the house until they know how to light a pilot light.
.......and Oh yea! Make sure you tell them where the garbage goes after you put it down a garbage disposal. I had a tenant ask me if she needed to empty it.
Now I'm off my soap box.
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You guys are killing me! Ever buy bottled water?? Boneless skinless chicken? Precut meat?? Ground beef? Canned soup? Paint in a spray can? I could go on and on. All are much more convenient but also more expensive. Sure you could make all of them your self but for a liitle more money someone else does it. So let me buy my premixed anti-freeze.
Oh yea I can both light a pilot AND mix anti-freeze (if I want to ). 
Don't take this too seriously!
Ever buy bottled water?? Boneless skinless chicken? Precut meat?? Ground beef? Canned soup? Paint in a spray can? I could go on and on. All are much more convenient but also more expensive. Sure you could make all of them your self but for a liitle more money someone else does it. So let me buy my premixed anti-freeze.Oh yea I can both light a pilot AND mix anti-freeze (if I want to ).
Don't take this too seriously!
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You guys are killing me! Ever buy bottled water?? Boneless skinless chicken? Precut meat?? Ground beef? Canned soup? Paint in a spray can? I could go on and on. All are much more convenient but also more expensive. Sure you could make all of them your self but for a liitle more money someone else does it. So let me buy my premixed anti-freeze.
Oh yea I can both light a pilot AND mix anti-freeze (if I want to ).
Don't take this too seriously!
Ever buy bottled water?? Boneless skinless chicken? Precut meat?? Ground beef? Canned soup? Paint in a spray can? I could go on and on. All are much more convenient but also more expensive. Sure you could make all of them your self but for a liitle more money someone else does it. So let me buy my premixed anti-freeze.Oh yea I can both light a pilot AND mix anti-freeze (if I want to ).
Don't take this too seriously!
i carry that stuff for the sheer ease of use factor.
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My personel rule of thumb is 100k, But I check my coolant dca/ph levels every other oil change. I only have 12k on my 06 so it needs nothing yet.
The class 8 and class 6 trucks I maintain at my part time job get a complete coolant drain (engine block also) every 250k, dca and ph levels checked every 3rd oil change and conditioners added as needed.
The class 8 and class 6 trucks I maintain at my part time job get a complete coolant drain (engine block also) every 250k, dca and ph levels checked every 3rd oil change and conditioners added as needed.
On a COLD engine, pop off the radiator cap. Take a digital voltmeter or a multimeter and set it to read DC volts. Hold the red (positive) lead in the coolant but do not touch the sides of the radiator, you want the probe tip to be fully immersed in coolant. Then take the black (negative) and put it on your negative battery terminal (either battery). Now check your meter. If you are reading anything more that a tenth (0.10 V) volts DC, then your galvanic reaction has started, and the coolant should be replaced very soon. My truck has 94,000 miles on it and I drained, flushed and filled the cooling system, about a 1000 miles ago. I suspect that I had the original coolant in my truck. When I checked it with the meter I had a little over 0.30 V
. Not good, so I drained, flushed, and filled. And now the meter reads well below 0.10 (I can't remember what it read).I filled my engine up with FleetGuard ES Compleat. Good stuff, and it is even dyed blue instead of nuclear green.
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From: Canuckistan
You guys can make fun of premixed coolant all day long, but the bottom line is this, the water is deionized, ultra filtered and uv processed before being mixed with coolant. Thus vitually eliminating any chance of contaminating your cooling system with impurities, metals, calcium, or fortifying agents added to most municiple water supply systems. Unless you frequently check the condition of your coolant, ( dca,ph levels), you are headed for major cooling system problems. For the individuals that like to do thier own maintenance and cooling system servicing it would behoove you to use pre mixed coolant. I would think that an extra $20.00 to service my cooling system with premixed coolant is far less expensive than replacing waterpumps or dealing with an overheating engine because of plugged coolant passages. I can't tell you how many cylinder liners I have pulled that are all pitted out and leaking because of poor coolant condition.
When my 06 is due for a cooling service it will be getting premixed coolant.
When my 06 is due for a cooling service it will be getting premixed coolant.
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