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Title: Recommended Coolant Post by: Angle Grinder on 07 June, 2011, 11:32:25 AM My Flavia has spent most of its time in my ownership in the garage of the restorers :P and is still there. It may well be there for yet another winter too.
I've change all the other fluids/lubricants, but never got round to changing the coolant as I had planned to give the car a thorough de-scaling/rad-flush when I got her back from restoration. I'm going to give my Flavia a "hospital" visit and do the coolant change, so... are there any brands of Radiator Flushing solutions that I should avoid using with the aluminium engine? Similarly, are there any types of coolant that are better to use with this engine? Title: Re: Recommended Coolant Post by: phil-m on 07 June, 2011, 12:54:38 PM Nothing specific for aluminium engine, I would not however use the 'pink' coolant as it is designed for more modern engines and is particularly searching on leaks and joints.
Title: Re: Recommended Coolant Post by: thecolonel on 07 June, 2011, 05:03:11 PM Be very careful about using modern antifreeze/coolant they are not designed for older systems.
Stick with ethylene glycol based either blue or green would be my opinion. |