Re: gas mileage/ 1998 Dakota 5.2 L

From: John_Neff@Dell.com
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 10:37:30 EST


Andy findings are identical to mine, except for the mileage increase of
course. I went so far as to pout in the entire bottle of Radiator Relief.

John

>I think John has (and I HAD, until Daktoberfest) the Flex-A-Lite Black
>Magic 150. I wasn't fortunate enough to see the mileage increase John saw.

> YMMV.

>I had one big problem with - it was barely able to keep up with my '99 318
>in the summer heat here in NY. Even with the 180 stat and a half bottle of

>DEI Radiator Relief, my temperature got higher than I liked (210) many
>times last summer. On the highway, it stayed cool. Once I slowed down, it

>got very warm and it was hard to get the temp back down unless I went back
>to 70 MPH. And since the LAST half of my drive home from work is stop &
>go...

>The install is fairly easy once the clutch fan is off. Make sure you save
>everything in case you want to go back.

>Some people have had great success with the BM 150, but I don't see myself
>returning to it. If I were to go electric again, I'd set up a pair of fans

>somehow to move a LOT of air. I'd also install a cutoff switch for when I
>hit water.



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