Make sure that you use only premixed coolant, whatever kind you buy make darn tootin it is 50/50 premixed.
NO TAP WATER! Tap water/garden hose water is for emergancies only.
Your home drinking water contains minerals and calcium, if you have well water then you have iron too.
All those minerals will clog your radiator.

 

i know this mang,,, i have done it before.


my dad is the guy who you will see with a garden hose filling his radiator for his truck or my moms suburban (as i shiver)

i am the guy who has jugs of distilled in my garage just in case i need to fill a bit.

my dad cant figure out why he blows radiators in his old one ton every year,,,,,

 

I know that you know better Joe, I was just posting general info for others who may not have known, dont take it personal, it's not your fault you have a low I.Q.
Having to wear water wings while eating soup and all.

 

those waterwings didnt help at all,,,,,,

 

Im doing it right now...
So Pissed!!

 

ummmmmmmm what?

 

After you drain it fill your cooling system with the garden hose, and let it idle with the heater on and the radiator cap off for 20 min or so.
Let it cool and then redrain.
Stand on the front bumper and bounce up and down and you can get the rest of the water out.
Then fill with the new coolant and rebleed the system.
I hope that I have caught you in time.

 

Yeah... But Im using Distilled Water..

Bought whatever AutoZone had..

Prestone..
Its Yellow,
Claims to work in any Type of Vehicle and can be added to Any Color Coolant..

 

Good to hear Pancho, you are one step ahead of me and one notch better than me.
And yes, that Prestone is just fine.

 

What about in Disco IIs? Can we rid ourselves of the Dexcool and run the Prestone? Honestly, I have put a small amount of Prestone in my '02 a couple of times in the last year and a half, just to top it off, since I had the 60k service done. Please advise. I have never fully understood this Dexcool stuff and whether or not if was serious or just talk.