[Fot] Liners and Alum rad cleaner

[Tim Murphy]

I used a product called "Sea Foam" to flush out the cooling system on one of
my street cars when the head gasket failed and oil was being pumped into the
coolant.  It worked good, took a couple of flushes, put it in, run it for
awhile, flush, do again.  It's sold at most automotive stores.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Greg & Alison Blake
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:48 PM
To: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: [Fot] Liners and Alum rad cleaner

I have started the disassembly of the TR3 to determine what went wrong in
May at ECR.  Last night after removing the radiator, I flushed it with the
garden hose and found enough rust particles to cover the bottom of a jam
jar.  I use an aluminum radiator so my thinking right now is that these
particles must be from the liners.  The radiator also has a coating of oily
gunk presumable from one of my head gasket failures in past race weekends.
So I have two questions for the group:

 

1)       What is a good chemical treatment for flushing oily residue from
the alum radiator?

2)      Who are the current sources for good quality liners?

 

I am sure I'll have more questions once I pull and disassemble the engine.

 

Thanks,

 

Greg
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