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| Here's a quick and simple test for electrolysis/corrosion... Take a
| voltmeter, ground one probe, and stick the other into your coolant at the
| radiator fill hole. A system in bad condition will show some voltage on the
| meter.... No, I don't know offhand what numbers to expect.
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| - Jerry Kaidor
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Jerry
the actual voltage potential should probably be between a volt and
one point five volts (based on the periodic tables), but the current flow
may very low. How high it will read on a voltmeter depends on the resistance
of the particular voltmeter used to measure it. Also the plating on the
probe you dip in the radiator acts as one plate of a battery so the theotetical
voltage will vary a bit depending in the electrical activity of whatever the
probe is plated with. (nickle, brass, chrome, gold,etc).
Still it seems like a good way to check.
regards/dickn
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