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Re: Coolant was Battery Water

To: "Barney Gaylord" <barneymg@MGAguru.com>
Subject: Re: Coolant was Battery Water
From: "james" <jhn3@uakron.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:49:05 -0500
so what creates the thick deposits that you often see in the water jackets
of engines?

James Nazarian
71 B tourer
71 BGT V8
85 Dodge Ram
----- Original Message -----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@mgaguru.com>
To: james <jhn3@uakron.edu>; David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: 26 February, 2003 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Coolant was Battery Water


> 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
> http://MGAguru.com

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