Watercooling Question Help Please
 

Hey guys, i really need your help

i had to despratly clean my water loop from God knows what but i got it all cleaned out but when i cleaned it I ran some Palmolive (dish soap) through the loop, this was the only i could clean it.


I refilled everything and some suds still remain from the soap

Is there any harm to this?

Should I empty and refill?

Or is there anything i can do to get rid of the suds


PLEASE HELP

Dont want to run the system that long if i need to do something fast


thanks

Personally, I would drain and refill. A LITTLE soap in the coolant can be a good thing as soap is a surfactant, which reduces the surface tension of water and theoretically can improve heat transfer. But you have way too much if you are getting sudsing. Suds (air bubbles) doesn't conduct/transport heat very well. You may have to flush and fill several times with distilled water to get most of it out.

I concur.

The easiest thing to do is to flush it out, and that means using clean (soap free) water to do it. So you could run a tap line through the loop, then rinse it off with a gallon or two of distilled water (58cents a gallon, right?), just to make sure that you don't have any accumulated minerals.

Then again the 2 gallon flush alone might do it, it depends on the quantity of soap you used.

You can also put destilled water with bleach to clean the system, i had a litle incident with one water aditive that end up making my tubing pink, i ran water and bleach for 30 min, and the pink color whent away.

doenst bleach corrode like a mofo?

Yes, but he don't leave the bleach there now do he?

It's a good way to clean out your system and then replace with regular coolant.

After 30 min i flush the system twice to make sure all the bleach is out, i used 1/2 cup mix with 1 galon of destiled water.

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for flushing normal tap water is fine... you wont need to flush the tap water out after, just replace it with the coolant you want to use. I use de-ionised water, hopefuly Ive got enough left for when i refill, as i cant be arsed to goto the shop to get more :)