You are correct, freezing antifreeze will not hurt your engine. Until you start it. Then your water pump can't turn, possibly breaking the shaft, at least cusing havoc with the belt. If you manage to ignore that, you have a frozen cooling system, which will quickly overheat. Nope, no problem at all. :) tom On 9 Oct 2003 at 20:32, gary hradek wrote: > mark, > It is truely a unique characheristic of water to > expand when it freezes and turns to a solid and > destroy your block. > All other things including antifreeze shrink when it > turns to a solid. No problem when it shrinks. When it > comes to freezing it is the water that is the problem. > Now heat, this is a different thing. > So it is of interst to me to know what works best for > heat? many thanks for your input but consider > expansion. regards gary > --- Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net> wrote: > > Gary, ------ Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW EN34hx 85 Westphalia GL Albert 96 Jetta GL The Intimidator taring@taring.org "It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to go into a turn fast and come out dead." Stirling Moss |
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