[AT] OT - oil stop leak

[Mark Johnson]

I learned the hard way why animals so easily get poisoned by 
antifreeze...was siphoning out of a jug because there wasn't room to 
pour into the reserve tank some years back, and accidentally got a 
(small) mouthful of the stuff.

Incredibly sweet, no wonder animals (and people) drink it. Took me a 
long time to get the taste out, but fortunately I did so quickly and 
thoroughly enough that I had no ill effects.

I'm surprised that coolant makers have never been required to put 
something in antifreeze to make it taste really bad.

Obvious advice: Don't use a piece of plastic pipe as a mouth-driven 
siphon with antifreeze. Really bad idea.

Mark J
Columbia MO


On 2/16/2019 10:12 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
> My biggest pain when working on engines anymore is the coolant. It 
> seems that you can never get the antifreeze drained enough that it 
> doesn't run out at the most inopportune time..  Anti freeze is so 
> toxic to my animals and pets that I really worry when any gets spilled.
> Cecil
>