Tacoma750

^^ its a 3.8 motor not a 3.4 lol

thook

Good Lord...my dog dies and my brain goes haywire. Sorry...I see now that was Skinamer. I'm getting an examination tomorrow.....that or making my coffee stronger.

People need to stop hijacking threads....

mt_goat

That is good, notice this part:

thook

Right....so, as I was saying. Drain that crap and inspect your electricals...

thefallman

I'd say hose water isnt going to be a big thing as long as there arent alot of metals or salts in your water. if its city water it should be fine for a year.

As to my earlier comments about which antifreeze its not that important with Domesitic engines but with import engines especially Toyota it can be important to use the correct antifreeze. I have read several articles about the effects of using non toyota red in toyota engines and the fact that it erodes the metals in the engine. According to the article i read this is because of the specific formulation of the aluminum alloy that they use, for some reason it is particulary vulnerable to errosion from other types of antifreeze.


Ill see if i cant find the article again

thefallman

Cant seem to find the article off the top of my head i seem to remember it was a link in a similar discussion here on yotatech.

thook

Well, ...that's what I was thinking, too. But, I really don't KNOW what's in city water. I know there's flouride in most. Being an aluminum byproduct, I wonder what effect that would have. My biggest point, rather what was in the back of my mind, is that I've always flushed from the garden hose and have never had any issues.....AND I'm on a well. Then, I also don't have any electrical anomolies going on, either. But, from what I understand atleast a gal. or so is left from the flush that doesn't come out of the block. How in the hell would someone deal with that. I mean, how can anyone get nothing but distilled water + coolant in the motor?

BTW, are you referring to the Dexron crap?

mt_goat

What I have done in the past to flush is fill the system with distilled water (or distilled water and flush stuff) and run the engine up to temp with the heater on and then drain, then repeat once more or until the water looks clear. Distilled water only costs $1/gal, so it may take $6-$8 worth. Actually now I'm running Evan's waterless coolant, no water at all in the whole system. http://www.custommachiningusa.com/Evans_NPG+.html

thefallman

dexron???

thook

Sorry....meant Dex-cool.

Thanks Dale. How much is that stuff? No prices on the site.

mt_goat

Here's a thread about it:
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f123...oolant-114994/

It's very expensive, about $30/gal.

thook

Ooooo......ouch! Too rich for my blood.

(Thanks for the link)

Tacoma750

thanks for all the good info guyz

thook

On the other hand...read the thread. I'll have to do some more research and think about this.

mt_goat

Yeah its suppost to last a long time, which could make it reasonable over time. But a coolant leak could get expensive. I've gotten pretty good at catching and filtering the coolant after all my cooling system testing that required draining the radiator multible times.