This all started when I posted this to my timeline. This is the sort of thing youll be seeing here. To all of my nearly car illiterate folks. ANTI_FREEZE!!! Yes you live in a temperate climate. No there is not a very good chance of your actually freezing the block. It can though. Hence my need to put in an engine in the F150. The fellow that owned it before me was always good about flushing it but he lived in an even warmer clime so he didnt use anti-freeze/coolant. I wont get too technical on you but it also does a lot more than keeping your car from freezing. It cleans, its a rust inhibitor, it keeps the temperature of the car cooler in hot situations. Tonight I dealt with the effects of the rust-inhibiting aspects. Ive been puzzeld for days why I was getting no heat. It seems all of the rust built up in the engine with the previous owner not having used a 50/50 mix of anti-freeze/coolant settled very nicely into the heater core. A severe flushing of the entire system seems to have broken it up and it seems to be working fine now. Thank God as changing the heater core is almost as bad as changing the engine. Well see how well it breaks up and if it clears but I may have to flush it again. Moral of the story. When Tony Valentine, Taylor Hoolhorst-McDermott, Daniel Sullivan, Daniel Keith Ransford at Sears Auto Center or Michael Griggs suggest its time to flush and renew your coolant, theyre not trying to pick your wallet. Do it. Save yourself some headaches and for the love of God dont think its okay to run it with just water. Its not. Winter is just around the corner. If your car is three years old or has over 50,000 miles, its time. Thats most manufacturers suggested interval.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:35:15 +0000