![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, the little additive soldiers are not all used up right away and are waiting (up to 5 years/150K miles) to fight the next battle. This chemistry stays in the coolant solution until corrosion is detected, then only attacks that site. Organic Acid Technology (OAT) is silicate free. To make matters worse, the silicate "blobs" as shown in my picture above are abrasive to water pump seals. Consequently the additive chemistry is depleted - it is all on the metal - and when it comes off again it leaves the metal unprotected. They are designed to coat the metal surface rapidly and protect against corrosion. The green coolants uses only silicates for metal protection. After you make your purchase, you add 50% water and this combination is the "coolant." To this dyed ethylene glycol, additives are mixed in at around 6%-8%. The many different colors are merely dyes. You were typing same time I was, but bottom line is that I don't want to get into ******* contests about brands.Įveryone should know that ethylene glycol is a clear fluid. Some were green, some were pink, some were red. Same here - go with a Long Life coolant (Mopar, whatever Prestone fits your make and model, or Peak) and you'll be fine. ![]() For example, while I advocate diesel engine oils, hopefully you've noticed I have not picked a particular favorite. I aim to be technology-centric and not name brands. Unless I learn something different, I would put the Global Lifetime product in any of my cars ('94 Viper, '96 Dakota, 05 Jeep, 06 Charger, 04 Neon, and yes, 05 Focus) without hesitation. Plus, I have had other Long Life style coolants in my other cars already and I'm not about to change until 5 years or 150,000 miles. Because of my testing with magnesium, I found the Peak Global Lifetime product better than others, but none of our Viper engines have magnesium parts. We are now picking one brand or formulation tweak among many champions. Seriously, if you choose any color long life coolant you will be much, much better off. Any long life coolant (one that advertises 5 years or 150,000 miles) is a tremendous technology leap upwards. All coolants are major brands, just different technology additives.įolks, let me start by saying the green coolant is like the engine oil made from Pennsylvania crude and all they did was filter it. The top disc is aluminum, the center spacer is steel, the bottom disc is magnesium, the ***** is brass. All sample metals were cut at the same time and treated equally. You would be surprised at how different the results were. Then bought a few cheap Walmart coffee pots, filled with coolant and water, and plugged them in for a week or so. I simply cut discs of aluminum from the garage, used a brass *****, a steel sleeve, and a hole saw to cut round discs out of the magnesium clutch cover. The normal test puts thick washers of several types of material (aluminum, steel, copper) in the heated coolant and the weight before and after is measured. Normal engine parts aren't made with magnesium, so there is no industry standard evaluation for coolant protection of magnesium. Well, it did and blocked the coolant flow so the engine would overheat. There was a coolant passageway that would plug up because no coolant at the time was able to protect magnesium the Suzuki folks probably thought that the hole was so short it wouldn't matter. I supplied the G-05 and the six gallons of distilled water-four gallons used to completely purge the system of the old antifreeze, and the other two mixed with two gallons of G-05 for the refill.Maybe some of you had a 2005 or 2006 Suzuki LT-Z400 that was recalled and they replaced the magnesium clutch cover with an aluminum one. My shop did this for me on my Chrysler 300M. Get them to completely flush the system with distilled water, and then refill with a 50/50 mix of G-05 and distilled water. You need to take your Jeep to a shop that can do a complete system flush. It's very difficult to see in the radiator recover tank, but at least it won't get mistaken for Dexcool. The only aftermarket G-05 coolant (other than Mopar) currently available is Zerex G-05, which is dyed a very light yellow-about the color of ordinary cooking oil. Mopar's G-05 is dyed an orange color that is almost the same as Dexcool, but this coolant is NOT compatible with Dexcool. If it's green, it has had regular antifreeze put in it at some point, if it originally came with G-05, which is the HOAT coolant that Chrysler uses. Do you think the green coolant that's in it is the HOAT type? ![]()
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