I have read and have been told about putting a sacrificial anode into the system with each flush/coolant change. Anybody have any experience with this? Cya, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@UVIC.CA> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:51 AM Subject: Re: Coolant
> This entire thread on water has been hashed over before on this list. > > see archives :) > > The "hungry water" theory below doesn't stand much scrutiny, think > about it. > > Alistair > > '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94 > http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/ > > On 13-Feb-05, at 9:24 AM, Ken Lewis wrote: > >> Found this on the internet, FWIW. >> >> " Distilled or deionized water is very aggressive Water "wants" to >> contain >> minerals and distilled water will attack cast iron and aluminum far >> more >> aggressively than mildly hard tap water. " >> >> >> Ken Lewis >> http://neksiwel.20m.com/ >> |
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