sublime42o

i just looked in my overflow bottle and the coolant that was in there looked rust colored, like a red-ish orange. What does this mean?

Thanks,

Tom

asuka42227

Need to flush radiator. That red is rust. After you flush refill with the orange stuff. Cost's more, but lasts a lot longer and is less likely to rust the non aluminum parts of your cooling system.

sublime42o

awesome thanks a lot

bejbis

mine is green

-Daniel

Digi7ech

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Green is the traditional coolant for ours.

The redish orange is the new(DEXcool etc...)stuff and has many rumors going around. Some say it eats the seal on our cars but I have my 88 GTU running green and it blew a coolant seal at 102k while the 88 SE still runs using Orange at 154k.

Digi7ech

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Oh yeah if you do a coolant type swithc make sure you completely flush the system. The 2 don't like eachother.

Don't forget to turn the heater on so the coolant comes out of that when you flush.