Radiator question

[DBMaster]

Well, I won't argue with that, per se. When I lived in Corpus I didn't have an R/O system at home so I used to buy the water by the gallon from a vending machine. They now have these machine (sans need to put in a quarter) in Wal Marts and grocery stores. The ones in Corpus dispensed either R/O or DI water. I accidentally filled one jug with DI water. It tasted icky, kind of "synthetic," if that makes any sense.

But, my Zero Water pitcher - that I use at the office - has a huge filter in it (about five times the size of a Brita filter). It makes water with 0 TDS (total dissolved solids). It actually tastes very good. The tap water at my office starts out at about 200 ppm TDS. I guess the type of DI resin and additional filtration through activated charcoal must "polish" the water. My R/O system includes a carbon block filter that polishes the water just before dispensing it. The jury's out on leaching minerals, but because the water is so good I end up drinking lots of it.

I think I recall that if you read the label on premixed coolant in detail you'll see that they use purified water, of some sort, in it.

[lostforawhile]

well hopefully this thread might clear up why to use either an antifreeze or a corrosion inhibitor, it acts like the sacrificial anode in your water heater, it adds the minerals that water will leach out into the coolant and those get used up instead of the metals in your cooling system, that's why even if it looks clean antifreeze doesn't have an unlimited life span, once those minerals get used up they are gone

[DBMaster]

Speaking of water heater anodes, I cannot get mine loose, period. I tried my electric impact wrench as well as a breaker bar. All I have succeeded in doing is shifting the entire heater. I installed the thing five years ago and through that this time I would maintain it, but it appears I am not going to be able to do it. Wasted $35 online for one of those flex-anodes since my heater is on a platform and the top is only a couple of feet from the ceiling. It is a GE (made by Rheem) from Home Depot. It was their "best" (12 year) heater from five years ago.

Sorry to hijack this thread with water discussion and water heaters!

[Dr_Snooz]

How did you find out about that, Paul?

Hair analysis. I was going to a doctor at the time who put great stock in hair analyses. (Damn fool has since been thrown in the klink for tax evasion so I don't have a doctor anyomre. :duh Every time I would get results, I'd be lower in minerals. I had a shelf full of mineral supplements, but I kept losing minerals. I finally put 2 and 2 together and switched to spring water. It's not as good, but mineral depletion is worse.

The water arguments rage and I don't have anything to add to them really. One camp says that distilled water will leach your bones. Another says that the minerals in spring water will clog your arteries because they are inorganic. All I know is that distilled didn't work for me. If my arteries clog, then I'll deal with that when I come to it.

Oh, the distilled water got rid of almost all my heavy metals though, so that's something else to consider. I hear about people taking weird medicines for heavy metal toxicity and tell them that all they need to do is drink distilled water. Pretty strange, I know.

One data point doesn't make a trend, of course, so you have to make up your own mind and do what's right for you.

Sorry for the off-topic romp through the weeds...

[lostforawhile]

Hair analysis. I was going to a doctor at the time who put great stock in hair analyses. (Damn fool has since been thrown in the klink for tax evasion so I don't have a doctor anyomre. :duh Every time I would get results, I'd be lower in minerals. I had a shelf full of mineral supplements, but I kept losing minerals. I finally put 2 and 2 together and switched to spring water. It's not as good, but mineral depletion is worse.

The water arguments rage and I don't have anything to add to them really. One camp says that distilled water will leach your bones. Another says that the minerals in spring water will clog your arteries because they are inorganic. All I know is that distilled didn't work for me. If my arteries clog, then I'll deal with that when I come to it.

Oh, the distilled water got rid of almost all my heavy metals though, so that's something else to consider. I hear about people taking weird medicines for heavy metal toxicity and tell them that all they need to do is drink distilled water. Pretty strange, I know.

One data point doesn't make a trend, of course, so you have to make up your own mind and do what's right for you.

Sorry for the off-topic romp through the weeds...

mineral water won't hurt you, your body uses some of those minerals and the rest simply are flushed out, most of the water on the planet is mineral water in some form,

[ADRIANFARINA]

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[ecogabriel]

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Did they ship your radiator already?
The radiator should come with a new cap suited to the pressure our cars need; the two radiators I bought brand new came with a cap. I can read my OE to see what pressure is printed on it if you want to source another one.

[DBMaster]

When I got my new radiator I had to go out and buy a cap because it took a newer style small cap. I have only bought two radiators thus far and neither came with caps. That may be because there are several different pressure specs and you need the one that goes with your particular cooling system. I can't remember what the Accord's was, but the caps are easy to find.

[DBMaster]

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Sorry about that.

I guess we went overboard on the drinking water discussions.

[ADRIANFARINA]

The rad is on the way..

[ADRIANFARINA]

finaly got it

[DBMaster]

Looks really good - all aluminum core is nice.

[ADRIANFARINA]

plastic caps..

[DBMaster]

That is what you want. The cars jostle their front ends too much to use soldered metal tanks. My metal tank radiator installed in 2000 was leaking by 2003. The manufacturer sent me a plastic tank radiator as the free replacement and it was still nice and tight nine years later. It was still a pain replacing the thing after only three years. The plastic tank radiators have rubber gaskets and are able to take quite a bit more vibration without cracking.

[lostforawhile]

That is what you want. The cars jostle their front ends too much to use soldered metal tanks. My metal tank radiator installed in 2000 was leaking by 2003. The manufacturer sent me a plastic tank radiator as the free replacement and it was still nice and tight nine years later. It was still a pain replacing the thing after only three years. The plastic tank radiators have rubber gaskets and are able to take quite a bit more vibration without cracking.

you know they are supposed to sit in isolator bushings top and bottom right? I think the bushings hardened and caused a lot more vibration to transfer to the radiator, I suspect it's a common issue, if they worked right the radiator should be completely isolated from vibration

[DBMaster]

^You're probably right. But, the plastic/metal radiators seem to last just as long as the all metal ones. If the core is intact a cracked or leaking tank can be repaired at least once. I had a side tank gasket replaced on an Escort radiator back in the 90's. With metal ones you have to mess with soldering and I have seen more of those solder joints fail than tanks crack.

[gtoman]

Will you be using the tranny cooler part of the rad as an engine oil cooler? This is what I'm thinking of doing.

Adam

[ADRIANFARINA]

I'm using it as trany oil cooler , as it should be..

[POS carb]

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I was wondering why this thread kept popping up to the top all week.
My head hurts. I'm going to drink water from the hose.

[ADRIANFARINA]

[lostforawhile]

you can't use the tranny cooler as an engine oil cooler,it's too restrictive