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    Posted: 17 January 2007 at 7:30pm
so i learned the hard way today that when your leaking anti freeze to not substitute it with water last night we had a big freeze i think it was like 10 degrees last night. I hoped in my car started her up and was on my merry way 10 or so miles down the road i go to turn on my heat it felt like i had the air conditioning going the tempature gauge showed that i was at normal temps and everything so i just figured i was low on fluid so it was reaching the heater core couple miles later my temp gauge all of a sudden just went through the roof i pulled over  let it cool down popped the hood felt the raditator and it was freezing cold i looked at it some more aqnd noticed that like 8 or so of the fins where cracked  from ice expanding inside them

so yea i just figured id share a new way to destroy your car


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Its called anti freeze.  Water freezes...
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Why the hell would you substitute water for anti-freeze.



... I mean ... What was your thought process there?


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Originally posted by *Stealth* *Stealth* wrote:

Why the hell would you substitute water for anti-freeze.



... I mean ... What was your thought process there?
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When I swapped my car from auto to stick I flushed the system and refilled it 60/40. My motor has a problem with burning off coolant from a failing headgasket.  I was  getting fed up with constantly dishing out 8  bucks for a gallon. Which now leaves me now with a radiator that got owned by lazyness.
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Originally posted by the_blade the_blade wrote:

When I swapped my car from auto to stick I flushed the system and refilled it 60/40. My motor has a problem with burning off coolant from a failing headgasket.  I was  getting fed up with constantly dishing out 8  bucks for a gallon. Which now leaves me now with a radiator that got owned by lazyness.
If you have a bad headgasket then you have a whole mess of problems already and shouldnt be running it, why you would replace anti-freeze with water is beyond me lol. But im told most anti-freeze only works down to like 15-18.
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The head gaskets made for pre 98 neons where defective they do not provide enough sealing on cylinder 4. When I did a compression test awhile back it was 234 245 238 153.
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As long as you didnt have antifreeze or in your case water in the oil then you gasket aint gone yet. But I would get that fixed while your at it.
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Originally posted by the_blade the_blade wrote:

When I swapped my car from auto to stick I flushed the system and refilled it 60/40. My motor has a problem with burning off coolant from a failing headgasket.  I was  getting fed up with constantly dishing out 8  bucks for a gallon. Which now leaves me now with a radiator that got owned by lazyness.
you did a tranny swap?  how much did that run ya?  wouldn't it have been easier to just get a new neon?
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Originally posted by battlefreak battlefreak wrote:

Originally posted by the_blade the_blade wrote:

When I swapped my car from auto to stick I flushed the system and refilled it 60/40. My motor has a problem with burning off coolant from a failing headgasket.  I was  getting fed up with constantly dishing out 8  bucks for a gallon. Which now leaves me now with a radiator that got owned by lazyness.
If you have a bad headgasket then you have a whole mess of problems already and shouldnt be running it, why you would replace anti-freeze with water is beyond me lol. But im told most anti-freeze only works down to like 15-18.


Distiled water is fine for coolant. I believe nascar's use water for coolant.  Distiled water works fine, just not in the winter.

You should have fixed that headgasket when you did the tranny swap.
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WOW just WOW oh well hope you get it fixed it probably would be better just
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