Date:         Wed, 16 May 2001 20:49:49 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Thermostats and coolant additives
Comments: To: mjruskin@home.com
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed

Blood is the best thing to fill your coolant system with. Its been around
for millions of centuries and works in all climates.


>From: Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@home.com>
>Reply-To: Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@home.com>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Thermostats and coolant additives
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:37:08 -0500
>
>I stand by my comments, bro. ;>)
>
>We are not driving racers, we are driving waterboxers with congenitally
>poor
>water circulation in their cylinder heads.
>
>If YOU want to run water as a summer coolant, that's fine - but there are
>new listees here who cannot judge advice for technical merit.
>
>They are advised to "stick with the program" of using the regular approved
>coolant as recommended by VW.
>
>Marshall Ruskin
>
> > Not so mon frere!
> >
> > Racers use water mixes, and for years only alcohol was added as a freeze
> > protector.  The boiling point is raised by the pressure in the system as
> > well.
> >
> > Water is simply the best heat transfer medium.
> >
> > See the link to Hypercool on the http://no-rosion Web site for a
> > discussion of this, and Hypercool is definitely a product for desert
> > dwellers to consider.
> >
> >
> > Marshall Ruskin wrote:
> > >
> > > I strongly disagree with the advice you present for desert Listees. It
>is
> > > incorrect advice, and should not be followed.
> > >
> > > If a listee used straight water, even with wetting agents in a hot
>climate,
> > > they would cerainly have boil overs because the coolant will
>definitely
>boil
> > > in the heads, when they slow down or stop. Perhaps boil when driving -
> > > causing a loss of coolant or worse.
> > >
> > > Anti-freeze not only lowers the freezing point, it also very
>significantly
> > > raises the boiling point of water.
> > >
> > > > --
> > > > Stuart MacMillan
> > > > Seattle
> > > >
> > > > '84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
> > > > '65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
> > > > '74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)
> > > >
> > > > Personal mechanic for:
> > > > '70 MGB GT (Daughter's)
> > > >
> > > > Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
> > > > '72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's)
> > > > '64 MGB (Son's)
> > > >
> > > > Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
> > > > '68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Stuart MacMillan
> > Seattle
> >
> > '84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
> > '65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
> > '74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)
> >
> > Personal mechanic for:
> > '70 MGB GT (Daughter's)
> >
> > Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
> > '72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's)
> > '64 MGB (Son's)
> >
> > Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
> > '68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT

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