Date:         Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:31:15 -0700
Reply-To:     jbrush@AROS.NET
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From:         John Brush <jbrush@AROS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Pepper those heads
Comments: To: Barry Mercer <bjmercer@SYMPATICO.CA>
In-Reply-To:  <3C77FABF.B9C1E493@sympatico.ca>

>He said to cure his heads from leaking, he took a quantity of pepper
>corns, the whole corns you'd find in a grinder, and tossed those into his
>coolant tank.  The corns traveled through the system, lodged in the areas
>where the heads leaked, and like the boy with his finger in the dam, his
>leaks stopped.

In my long lost youth, I put plain old pepper in the radiator of more than
one car and found the radiator leaks to have stopped. I never considered
it a permanent cure, and I would not expect it to stop a leaking hose, or
a connection, but I can say that it has worked on radiator leaks. I don't
think its pepper that's magic, I think it is just something soluable that
moves through the system till it lodges in a hole to small for it to exit.

I know it sounds far fetched, but it worked and that's all I know. OTOH,
like I said, I would never count on it to fix a leake permanently.

John