inmyshadow
07-04-2006, 04:29 PM
Just like all fluids in your car, they need to be changed once in awhile.
Today was the coolants turns again. You see, when I bought my current shadow nearly two years go the coolant was dark brown. You would have thought my car was cooled by ice tea.
Even after draining/filling the coolant when I swapped the head did nothing to improve the coolant.
Last year, I tired using Prestone's coolant flush along with the flush kit they have. That looked to have done the trick. The water was coming out clear. Fill up with coolant and take a short drive. Check to see if I needed to top off somemore, the coolant was brown again.
Last week, I added my FMIC. With now blocking off some airflow to the radiator, my temp wasn't were I wanted it. Considering my coolant was still brown, I decided to flush the coolant system again.
This time I went with a heavy duty flush. I used Zerex' Super Clearner. It was billed as being able to remove rust, scale and solder. Per instructions, I drained the coolant. Then added the flush along with filling up with straight water. The flush recommends 3 to 6hrs of operation.
I did all that yesterday. Today I flushed out the system again. This time, I didn't use the prestone flush kit. I needed to replace the thermostat and a coolant line for my oil cooler too.
As soon as I openned the drain ----, all this brown crap comes pouring out. I then flushed out the radiator, first through the drain ----. Then I removed the lower radiator hose and repeated.
I then removed the upper radiator hose and thermostat. I stuck the garden hose into the head. I flushed that for a few mintues until all the brown crap came out.
To finish off the flushing, I removed the heater hoses to my oil cooler. I then back flushed the heater core. Tons more brown crap came out. I hope this helps with the weak heat in the winter.
The results are awesome. My coolant is bright green. Now my temps are back in line with before the FMIC. Riding around town, my car bearly got over 190 degrees. With the FMIC, the temps were always above 200 degrees without the fan. After the flush, the temps are like before with the TII radiator/intercooler.
So, as I stated all fluids need to be flushed regularly. This includes power steering and brake fluid. I use to keep a bottle of flushed brake fluid to show friend's why they needed to flush the brake fluid.
This applies to all of us and our high mileage turbododges.
Today was the coolants turns again. You see, when I bought my current shadow nearly two years go the coolant was dark brown. You would have thought my car was cooled by ice tea.
Even after draining/filling the coolant when I swapped the head did nothing to improve the coolant.
Last year, I tired using Prestone's coolant flush along with the flush kit they have. That looked to have done the trick. The water was coming out clear. Fill up with coolant and take a short drive. Check to see if I needed to top off somemore, the coolant was brown again.
Last week, I added my FMIC. With now blocking off some airflow to the radiator, my temp wasn't were I wanted it. Considering my coolant was still brown, I decided to flush the coolant system again.
This time I went with a heavy duty flush. I used Zerex' Super Clearner. It was billed as being able to remove rust, scale and solder. Per instructions, I drained the coolant. Then added the flush along with filling up with straight water. The flush recommends 3 to 6hrs of operation.
I did all that yesterday. Today I flushed out the system again. This time, I didn't use the prestone flush kit. I needed to replace the thermostat and a coolant line for my oil cooler too.
As soon as I openned the drain ----, all this brown crap comes pouring out. I then flushed out the radiator, first through the drain ----. Then I removed the lower radiator hose and repeated.
I then removed the upper radiator hose and thermostat. I stuck the garden hose into the head. I flushed that for a few mintues until all the brown crap came out.
To finish off the flushing, I removed the heater hoses to my oil cooler. I then back flushed the heater core. Tons more brown crap came out. I hope this helps with the weak heat in the winter.
The results are awesome. My coolant is bright green. Now my temps are back in line with before the FMIC. Riding around town, my car bearly got over 190 degrees. With the FMIC, the temps were always above 200 degrees without the fan. After the flush, the temps are like before with the TII radiator/intercooler.
So, as I stated all fluids need to be flushed regularly. This includes power steering and brake fluid. I use to keep a bottle of flushed brake fluid to show friend's why they needed to flush the brake fluid.
This applies to all of us and our high mileage turbododges.