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NO!! mix 50:50 with DISTILLED water (archive)
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Posted by Jim Oddie on December 26, 2000 at 01:06:35:

In Reply to: Do I need to mix the coolant with water? posted by James on December 25, 2000 at 19:11:19:


Or just 100% coolant?

You should buy the coolant which is good for 5 yrs or 150,000 miles. The Texaco brand is red, and is what my independent shop uses. Go to the grocery store or drug store and get a gallon of distilled water for each gallon of AF you get. I have an empty water bottle on which I have the 1/2 gallon and one gallon levels marked. You determine this by pouring 64 and then 128 ounces of water into it. (Borrow someone's measuring cup.) Pour AF into the bottle up to the line, then fill it up to the gallon line with distilled water. Then pour the remainder of the distilled water in its bottle into the AF container. Shake them up, and you have 2 gallons of coolant ready to use.

Do NOT use undiluted antifreeze. The actual cooling in an engine occurs as the coolant boils at a microscopic level on the hot metal. Pure antifreeze will not do this, and will not cool as well.

Jim Oddie

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