Date:         Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:32:37 -0600
Reply-To:     tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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From:         tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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Subject:      Re: it will actually freeze
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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,

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Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW  EN34hx
85 Westphalia GL Albert
96 Jetta GL The Intimidator
taring@taring.org

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