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Re: HELP...Coolant question

To: Michael Ferguson <fergie@ntplx.net>
Subject: Re: HELP...Coolant question
From: Sam Gentry <hsgentry@cfw.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:22:01 -0500
Cc: TR <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <199912192311.SAA26086@mail.ntplx.net>
A couple of years ago I bought a gallon of Toyota antifreeze and it was 
dark red, could be called brown I suppose.  I didn't think that there was 
anything special about it other than the color.

Sam

At 09:29 PM 12/19/1999 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:

>Michael;
>
>Brown coolant is the stuff you want to get rid of!!  :~) Just kidding, but I
>only know of two colors
>of coolant , green and the new pink colored Dex-Cool junk that's being passed
>off as 100,000 mile or 5 year anti-freeze. I'm in the automotive fluid
>maintenance business, and we've seen a number of these newer cars with this
>stuff in them where the coolant has started to crystallize and gel. Pretty
>nasty stuff.  A lot of the technicians at dealerships are ganking the pink
>stuff in favor of the good ol' green coolant.
>Some cars, ie:, Volkswagen and Porsche take a low silica formulation of
>coolant, but these requirements are normally handled by the top manufacturers
>of antifreeze.
>
>Christmas Cheer,
>
>Jeff Johnson
>'76 TR6
>Original Owner
>
>
>
>Michael Ferguson wrote:
>
> > My son had his cooling system worked on a while back; replaced thermostat,
> > sending unit, etc. They topped off with some sort of coolant that was brown
> > <snip>


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