[AT] Cleaning out Tractor cooling system

[charlie hill]

I had a little cooling system problem with my truck a few weeks ago.   When 
I added water too it on the side of the road, what I thought was 2 gal jugs 
of water in the bed of my truck was in fact 1 gal jug of water and 1 gal jug 
of water containing about a pint of dish washing detergent.

I discovered my error but by the time I did there was about a quart of the 
soap mixture in my cooling system.  I drove the 3 miles or so on home with 
no problem.  I wouldn't recommend the practice to anyone else but when we 
changed the water pump on the truck later that day the cooling system 
flushed out nice and clean!

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Cleaning out Tractor cooling system


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <robinson at svs.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Cleaning out Tractor cooling system
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>> The shop is below zero today and so is my ambition level. I have Diana's
>> Lincoln jacked up to repair what turned out to be a hole in a brake line.
> I
>> just couldn't bring myself to lay on that zero floor to do it today.
>
> The older I get the less I enjoy working on the floor underneath a 
> vehicle.
> I can still recall years ago when my brother's two and a half ton Buick 
> fell
> off the blocks a few seconds after he had crawled out from under it.
> Nowadays I like to make use of the grease pit that my other brother built 
> in
> his garage a few years ago. It was a lot of work but sure nice to be able 
> to
> stand up straight under the vehicle and do whatever maintenance is 
> required.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>
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