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Sadly my windshield washer fluid has gone the way of the dodo. I was using if from last year, 2003, until about march 04. I went to empty my sysyem, clean it, make a new reservoir, and refill. Well, I figured, I might as well pull the block, clean it and check the o-ring. Well I have a dtek tc4 with the coiled springs thru the passage, and there must have been pigments in the windshield washer fluid, because i had large blue rocks forming. So the windshield washer fluid idea was scrapped. I sanded the inside of the tc4, wire brushed the springs, used ketchup to clean up the copper a little more, and reassembled. From about March, until now, December, I have been running antifreeze and water in somewhere around a 10:90 to 20:80 mix. This is just eye balling. I miss the blue from the windshield washer fluid, but that is all. Temps with the antifreeze are better: right now 33 ambient case temp, 34 idle, load gets to 36-37. Evaporation is less with the antifreeze. And the smell is decreased with antifreeze. Plus my tubes aren't as cloudy, as when I had the windshield washer fluid.
Oh yea, one more note: my tc4 is the aluminum top one, and i noticed a little pitting on the underside of the aluminum and the anodizing was chipping away. Hopefully, the antifreeze/distilled water mix will be enough to prevent further corrosion.
antifreeze/distilled water is where i'm at right now. I also switched over my friends loop from windshieldwasher fluid to antifreezee. He has a dtek whitewater, and the blue gunk was clogging up his fins.
There you have it
later
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