Re: A question regarding anti-freeze/coolant
K. Patrick Wheeler (pwheeler(at)ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:34:54 -0700
Geep ! ! I always used distilled water in all my cars. It is supposed to be
free of minerals and all that junk, you say I should use some of the MUD's
finest rock water that is so hard it corrodes my bathroom fixtures and makes my
hair stand on end? Tell me it isn't so. Any Chemists in the bunch (I dropped
out of chemistry three times before finally getting through) who can shed some
light on this? "Ole"'s idea sounds good, for those of us who think that white
stuff is sand on a beach, except that I understood that the lowering of the
boiling point was an important feature of anti-freeze that would be especially
important in our LBC's.
-Patrick
S V
Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) wrote:
> "Ole" wrote,
>
> >A friend of mine in the motor home business recommends using only distilled
> >water and soluble oil,
>
> Ohhhh dear!
>
> Distilled water is one of the worst things you could put in your radiator.
>
> Its absolute lack of ions accelates the corrosion process.
>
> Try rainwater, or let some tapwater air out for a few days.
>
> Jarrid Gross