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Old 01-04-2013 | 04:25 PM
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I'm prepaing to flush but here at Wally World they don't have green stuff. They have add to any color pre diluted stuff. Is that ok?
 
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Old 01-04-2013 | 05:09 PM
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I would suggest peak 50/50 or prestone50/50 green.
 
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Old 01-04-2013 | 05:13 PM
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Old 01-04-2013 | 05:14 PM
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Preston's they have but it's not green, it's the add to any color one
 
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Old 01-04-2013 | 05:24 PM
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I grabbed the super tech which is Wally brand. If that's poo then I'll return it I guess. Checking out already
 
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Old 01-04-2013 | 08:51 PM
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I use the Wal-Mart brand coolant, 50/50 premixed because it is idiot proof, which soots me perfectly.
It is actually Peak.
Wal-Mart makes nothing of their own, it is all made by someone else and then re-bottled.
Their oil/air filters are Fram.
 
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Old 01-04-2013 | 11:56 PM
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But it's not green lol. That's I was making sure of, that its ok to use.
 
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Old 01-05-2013 | 08:24 AM
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Just use dex-cool its fine as long as you change it every 2 years. I took apart my radiator after 100k miles of dex-cool use and it was free of sludge. A little scale but, no sludge. The dangers of dex-cool are way over blown in my opinion and if you maintain your system as you should then you will never have a problem with dex-cool. Now in a neglected system with unchecked leaks and maintenance, then it will cause problems more so then the green. I really dont think its the devil juice people on the forums make it out to be.
 
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Old 01-05-2013 | 08:48 AM
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If you maintain ... that would be the key. Lifetime fluids usually shorten the lifetime of the vehicle if not changed more frequently than the ad department wrote in the manual. And poorly maintained (adding well water, tap water, mixing coolant top off by Iffy Lube) won't make it better. Dexcool has perhaps more problems when poorly maintained. But what the heck, ya gotta flush the toilet every few years don't ya?

Conventional calcium scale buildup, and three pix of dexmud (perhaps invented by southern boys as a way to export red clay). And radiator chemistry being what it is, a sealed system, that is heated or cooled, the chemical processes are at work 24/7, just faster when heated.
 
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Old 01-14-2013 | 09:31 AM
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^^^ Scurry looking... so after having blead the coolant system using the elevated idle method with the tank open and over the batt tray, then stone cold elevated the tank and opened bleed screw, it started pouring coolant right away...I thought I was good! I have driven Hopper since then with no sloshing nor waterfall sounds but, today I drove to work and decided to turn the heater off, and then I heard a faucet running then it stopped...then I turned the heater back on and the faucet turned on again for a few seconds...what now happen I need do??? Cry?
 


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