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Old May 19, 2006 | 12:44 PM
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Exclamation quick Coolant cleaning question help plz

ok ive had the 7 sitting for about 2 weeks because of a coolant leak that was a pain in the *** to fix i finally got that fixed.. and the 7 is running, i added water to the coolant for i can see if the leak was still there, well now i have rust colored coolant and i think its just because it was sitting for alil while... well how can clean that rust out.. (just water isnt doing it.) can i spary alil bit of carb cleaner and then flush it out with water?. lookin for a cheap way to do this im broke and i want to get this all done)

(this is a 90 vert na, auto, tb mod, emissions removel)


any help would be great!...

thanks April
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Old May 19, 2006 | 01:10 PM
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anybody anything?
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Old May 19, 2006 | 01:57 PM
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Hope this helps and use distilled water on final fillup:
http://www.advanceautoparts.com/engl...0010501rm.html
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Old May 19, 2006 | 02:19 PM
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prestone super flush sytem
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Old May 19, 2006 | 02:29 PM
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You can't really clean coolant. You can clean the cooling system, which should get rid of whatever rust and **** is in the radiator, etc.

After cleaning the cooling system of whatever **** is in it, add new coolant. 50/50 mix.

James
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Old May 19, 2006 | 02:54 PM
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but am i able to use carb cleaner to clean it out? or anything like that to put into it, and then flush it out with water?.. this is my main question
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Old May 19, 2006 | 05:15 PM
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read my post above.
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