truthfully no, I never have looked in the rad!
I am just going on what they told her...
I will have to check it in a few days myself and see if there is anything in
the new green fluid.
Tony.
----- Original Message -----
From: JAMES KNOX <knox.james@sympatico.ca>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Red Antifreeze
>
> Tony and Tom, my thoughts were the sme as Tom before I read his message
the
> heating - cooling portion tranny fluid could be leaking into the rad,
> although you think it would make a frothy scum or slick in the rad. The G
M
> fluid in my Cadillac is nothing but trouble, every winter I have to get a
> heater core flush.
>
> Jim Knox, 91 Dakota 318 LA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terrible Tom" <SilverEightynine@earthlink.net>
> To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: DML: Red Antifreeze
>
>
> >
> > Tony Troidl wrote:
> > > Just a quick question, I had a friend of mine take my '02 Sport to
jiffy
> > > lube for an oil change yesterday, and they checked the rad fluid and
> told
> > > her it was contaminated and turned red! and when they had checked it
it
> was
> > > no good and would freeze!
> > >
> > > so out came the red antifreeze, they flushed it and put in normal
> green...
> > >
> > > I recall talk about this type of fluid maybe last year or so, is their
a
> > > reason for the red?
> > >
> > > and should I be pissed that they drained what is probably a much more
> > > expensive antifreeze?
> > >
> > >
> > > Tony.
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure it was red ANTIFREEZE? GM uses the Orange DexCool - and I
> > know Ford and Chrysler have their own extended life antifreeze a pinkish
> > color - but to my knowledge Daks have always used the greel glycol
> > stuff. If you had RED antifreeze I would be inclined to think it could
> > be trans fluid from a leaking cooler line (a non external trans fluid
> > cooler - my trans fluid lines are plummed into a cooler in the bottom
> > radiator tank)
> >
> > Unless, its a 4.7L engine - in which case I dont know if that one uses
> > an extended life coolant or green stuff.
> >
> > --
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
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> >
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