Coolant Systems

No School, Like Old School

Looked out at the spouse’s wagon and saw a dreaded flood coming out from under the hood.  Put off looking at it and saw some anti-freeze but nothing to indicate anything worse than a leaky hose.

Decided to take a closer look and found quite a bit of coolant puddling up at the base of the radiator.  Popped the cap and had to add about a gallon of coolant to top things off so now I knew I had a problem.

Antifreeze Simplified

By Tony K

If like me you thought the differences between antifreeze was simply a choice between green or red you would be mistaken…  First of all, color means nothing.  The base component of antifreeze is clear.  Red, green, blue, purple, orange and pink are all just dyes added to differentiate ones own brand.  And sadly there is no industry standard for the color of each type of mix.  And I also had no idea how different the mixes really are.