i8aMR2

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Does Redline Water Wetter eat coolant seals?

odditysmurf

Im not sure about the answer to that question but the people and Diablo Imports told me water wetter wasnt a good idea. They are one of the many who worked on the SCC car.

XSTransAm

i think it eats seals when you use it combined with just water... like on race cars... from what i hear its fine to use in combination with coolant.... as for its cooling capabilitys, it does work

BATMAN

Try this http://www.hyperlube.com/prod_cool.asp

SERIES7

So what's the answer?

SERIES7

This guy on the forum just dumped some Evans coolant into his system and blew his motor right afterwards. Can that be attributed?

rockshox

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just dumped some? does evans require a very complete flushing/cleaning of the entire cooling system first?

SERIES7

Sure, heh heh, he had it done when his newly rebuilt motor was put in.

Mahjik

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This is another one of those "FD Myths" that has never been proven. Many people have used it without any problems. I'm using Purple Ice as Royal Purple products are readily available locally to me (and I like their products better than Redline, tranny and diff oils).

BATMAN

I've used Water Wetter on my FC years ago and got 80k miles.

Fair enough?

rockshox

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later this month im going to get 2 coolant seals and soak one in hot water/water wetter and one in hot water/antifreeze for a week or 2 straight. how does that sound.

SERIES7

Awesome! Thank you for the public service.

Riccardo

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Rockshox...unless one of them degrades (i.e. like a metal screw in Coke for instance) you will not be able to judge safely as the temperature will be nowhere near engine compartment temperature as well as the duration of the experiment.
I currently use watter wetter. I do not know if it is long term corrosive to seals, however, I think it does do what it promises, especially not allow localised heat which is one of the causes for bad combustion as well as seal failure.

odditysmurf

I used water wetter in my contour solo car and had no problems. It worked as advertised in lowering temperatures. What i have found from various sites about water wetter is: "it takes minimul toll on seals and gaskets" now what that means exactly i cannot say. I do know that rubber soaks in any form of oil that is comes in contact with. If the oil in the rubber is allowed to evaporate in any way from the rubber it will take some of the components that make up the rubber with it. This would lead to a break down of the seal/rubber component. I would take a look at what is in the water wetter. I have not been able to locate what is in it on the net. It may say on the bottle, im not sure. My in-ability to get to a store to take a look is really driving me nuts right now lol. In my opinion if you are going to be running the car "HARD" then it may be a good idea and just look into replacing seals. I have minimul time under my hood personally so i dont know how many diffrent little rubber seals are in the FD3S. I used water wetter in the pro-7 car and had absolutly no problems with it there either. I will keep looking since im not doing anything at work and keep you informed on what i find.
Also every site i have found with information on it says the corrosion prevention is outstanding. Corrosion is best prevented by oiling the metal.

BATMAN

at any rate, even if it does corrode water seals it really does drop the water temps down.

dubulup

might just be luck...

bought FD
did all the reliablity mods (including WW in coolant)
replace motor due to coolant seal failure
60k miles.

Sometimes I wonder if I left the car stock...50/50 coolant ratio and dino oil, etc...if I'd be in a better boat right now?????????????????

SERIES7

I hear ya man. This other dude on the forum just blew his third motor. All have been on the same automatic, bone stock FD.

Each time, it was "supposedly" because of something different(mod). So this begs the question, would his motor have blown if he didn't add the HKS Twin Power on the second motor or would it have blown if he didn't add the Evans Coolant in the third motor. Keeping in mind this car was completely stock.

odditysmurf

Off the subject a bit but synthetic oils have been proven to not break down as much under heat. So using synthetic oil is of more advantage for turbocharged cars. As far as coolent seals failing that can be attributed to many factors in the cooling system. In my opinion the cooling system is one of the weekest point in any car. It is also one of the most neglected systems. The cooling problems i have had with many of my cars was due to actually breaking the water pump, ie: overrevving it, as opposed to anything in the coolent causing a breakdown of seals and such.

SERIES7

smurf, that's a good point you bring up about the pump itself.

odditysmurf

As i dig deeper and deeper into the wonderous internet. (i think i found the end of it btw) I find very ver little negative feed back about using wter wetter. From sites all over the world people are preaching water wetter with just water for track and water wetter and coolent on the street. I even found some INSANE computer people who use it in their liquid cooling systems for their CPU's. I would half to say its a case by case problem with the seals. Changing what an old seal is used too may pop the seal which would lead to people blaming the water wetter. if you have seals in good condition i cannot find anything that says the water wetter will degrade them.

88GT

Really guys.. I've used Redline Water Wetter in my 3rd gen. going on 7 years now without any problem. Blowing consecutive motors etc. etc. could be more related to the quality of the build. No ill effects from this product... Does what it states.. Lowers temps!