Is this the dirtiest radiator fluid you've seen?

TEaaron · 24-03-2006, 11:54 AM

Tital speaks for it self.

Pedro · 24-03-2006, 11:56 AM

Not by a long shot.

agony · 24-03-2006, 11:56 AM

Yes not the best but have seen it like that before mate.

TEaaron · 24-03-2006, 11:57 AM

:p I've never seen anything like this it was a bit of a shock to me. I just checked it again yesterday and it's back to that stage from all the corrosion in the pipes.

fiery · 24-03-2006, 11:58 AM

yes that is definitely dirty..

mind you it kind of seems to fit in with the rest of the engine bay

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agony · 24-03-2006, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by fiery

yes that is definitely dirty..

mind you it kind of seems to fit in with the rest of the engine bay

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thats not nice!

fiery · 24-03-2006, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by agony

thats not nice!

maybe, but it is true.....
but I didn't say it in a nasty way.. honest.........

EL_Alley_Cat · 24-03-2006, 12:07 PM

Ewww, I havent seen one that filthy before, but then again I havent stuck my head under the bonet of many cars lol

XR Martin · 24-03-2006, 12:39 PM

Ive seen coolant that was no longer liquid, it was sludge. Because the owner had mixed two different coolant together and they reacted.

There wasnt a coolant related part that didnt need replacing (including the engine)

Dezza · 24-03-2006, 12:41 PM

The radiator in my car (which came out of another EA) had fluid of about that colour. It looked like coffee.

Des · 24-03-2006, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by XDaaron

:p I've never seen anything like this it was a bit of a shock to me. I just checked it again yesterday and it's back to that stage from all the corrosion in the pipes.

You'll need to flush it out quite a few more times before it'll clear up. My old Mk1 Cortina was like that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th flush before finally starting to really clear on the 5th flush. Took 2 weeks from start to finish, but it finally cleared and was able to use proper coolant then.
Enjoy....

TEaaron · 24-03-2006, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by fiery

yes that is definitely dirty..

mind you it kind of seems to fit in with the rest of the engine bay

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Originally Posted by agony

thats not nice!

Haha, that's ok. I know the engine is in a ИИИИ condition. I've only had the car 3 weeks and the guy I bought it off was totaly clueless and never took care of it.

Ringo · 24-03-2006, 02:14 PM

Had a customer that went camping who's car developed a leak in the cooling system. Being the bright spark he was he took a bucket and filled it up with water from the creek nearby but included some of the sand silt silt and pea sized rocks n stuff from the bank.

We ended up getting a i 1/2 inch fire hose and putting it into the top hose and turning it on flat out. What came out was brown as coffee plus all the little bits of sand and stuff......it was like panning for gold !.....didn't kill the car either - unbelievable

There is probably half the radiator core, 1/3 of the heater core and about 10% of the head dissolved in that coolant - what a time bomb......did someone say its got a cracked head ?

pandaman · 24-03-2006, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by XDaaron

:p I've never seen anything like this it was a bit of a shock to me. I just checked it again yesterday and it's back to that stage from all the corrosion in the pipes.

Heh, my VN was a bit like that when I got it, although it wasn't quite that bad and it only took two flushes before it was clean. Don't think it helped appearances that it was that red coolant stuff to begin with either.

charles_wif_xf · 24-03-2006, 04:24 PM

Thats pretty bad but I have a mate who used to own a VK Bommodore and the thing looked like it had gravy as coolant.

It never hand more than a filters worth of oil and had a 3" exhuast. The thing made the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car look like an environmentalist's dream come true.

crusher · 24-03-2006, 04:47 PM

seen somethin like that before. took quite awhile of flushing before it all went away. After that it was all sweet.

It was even stranger cos it hadnt been driven in a while and the engine was basically brand new. Probly our fault for causing so much dust round the shed with the bush bashers :P

nugget378 · 24-03-2006, 05:16 PM

Look's like the water in my farm hack hilux except cleaner

e I dont think it would even run with coolant in it

**Mesa** · 24-03-2006, 05:25 PM

It's not the worst I've seen, but it's not real healthy either.
My wife had a 120Y which had really bad oil and water when she bought it. We changed the oil and it wouldn't start for hours. We left the radiator as we figured we offended it enough with new oil. Odly enough, we never had overheating problems with it.

EvilChief · 24-03-2006, 07:13 PM

it aint black yet so its all good

MoreHPformyXR6 · 24-03-2006, 07:19 PM

I not the worst I mate bought an old Mazda Capella from a wreckers & got it going that waz the worst i had seen. But the whole car was re-built & the a 13B PP. So it waz restored to good health.

chief · 24-03-2006, 07:51 PM

That is the dirtiest coolant I have eber seen. By a long shot. Looks like you are using mud for coolant. :P

Spak · 25-03-2006, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by EvilChief

it aint black yet so its all good

and it's still in liquid form

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OED666 · 25-03-2006, 01:49 PM

i have seen soup come from my brothers vt commodore... he nevah serviced it... only some bread rolls were missing and it could have been served as an entree...

Trevor 57 · 25-03-2006, 01:52 PM

Geez, that is not too bad, it still runs out, it is not mud glumping out like I have seen in the old days.

new2ford · 25-03-2006, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

The radiator in my car (which came out of another EA) had fluid of about that colour. It looked like coffee.

Where do you think McDonalds gets their coffee from?

FordGuy · 25-03-2006, 05:52 PM

That's nasty but very true.

Windsor220 · 25-03-2006, 06:38 PM

Just looks like typical commodore coolant.

nb_351 · 25-03-2006, 08:59 PM

yeah true that... a lot of vt era commondores have that substance as coolant...
speaking of which, this is pretty bodgy, but not long ago, we had a carnival a mate bought for next to nothing to send it to get sold somewhere else, and it had cracked heads, the stuff was like that, only more coffee like... like a coffee custard... we flushed thew system a few times, put stop leak in it, and sent it off... dont worry i wasant involved in the selling side of it, was just doing the dirty work... literally...