At 02:54 AM 2/26/03 -0500, James Nazarian wrote:
>David Councill said:
> > But I still add distilled water to batteries as well as to the coolant.
> ....
>
>After tearing down a few engines and seeing the buildup of scale inside of
>the coolant jackets I don't put anything but distilled water in my coolant
>either.
I hope that was just a mis-speak, but, .... If you put only distilled
water in your MG cooling system, the water jacket in the block and head
will rust like crazy. Not only that, but distilled water has a high
affinity for absorbing things, so it likes to eat iron, and copper, and
aluminum, and steel studs, and water pumps, and temperature sensors, and
maybe even a head gasket.
Just a thought,
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
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