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Old May 2, 2017 | 05:07 PM
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water wetter and antifreeze

Was after some advice on water wetter.coolant additives and antifreeze. I read somewhere about some anti freezes being bad for seals. Not sure of same applies to water wetters or what I need to look for. I have some Lucas super coolant to put in at the ready but thought I would double check it was okay to use first and if I should also run anti freeze with it and if so what to look for and what sort of mix ratio. I ran redline water wetter before without anti freeze.
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Old May 4, 2017 | 01:03 AM
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Just run 50/50 antifreeze and water. you can go to 60/40 for a small increase in boiling point.
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Old May 4, 2017 | 03:50 PM
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Going to go 60/40 and use a bottle of the Lucas I think.. Do you know the capacity of the water system by any change roughly obviously depending on rad I am guessing around 10 litres?

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Old May 4, 2017 | 08:08 PM
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yup, fill it till its full lol
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Old May 5, 2017 | 01:49 AM
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12l
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Old May 5, 2017 | 06:33 AM
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thank you for that HSMIDY.. just so I can gauge the ratio.
So I will go with a gallon of distilled. then my bottle of lucas then see if I can get a gallon of the antifreeze in and top up with distilled. Should see me about right!

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