Subject: Re: Overheated at the drive through Zoo by BillH on 2009/7/25 1:00:42
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CentralCoaster wrote: An 18 yr old car with only 40K on it and in that condition has probably been sitting awhile. The radiator is probably half blocked up inside and out.
Could be. It's also possible a correctly done flush will return things to normal. My 92 had 60k on it when I got it. It sat a lot, only 5,000 miles were put on it in 6 years. No records of it ever being flushed but a w/p installed at 40k. I did 3 flushes at one time: drained, filled with straight water, drove 10mi, drained, filled with a bottle of the crap, drove about 20mi, drained, filled with water, drained & filled with distilled & antif. An amasing amount of crap came out the first 2 times, not much on the last. That was 3 years ago, the coolant's only slightly cloudy now. It's time to do it again this fall.
Absoutely no cooling problems since, so I didn't need to boil the rad or replace it.
