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1st February 2018 06:36 |
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Originally Posted by SCP440
(Post 2590868)
Descaling cooling systems can often end with a leak, the lime scale and debris that builds up over the years will clog up fine waterways but it also seals up small leaks.
My advice when ever you top up a cooling system is to use distilled water rather that tap water, it is not expensive and saves a lot of contaminants entering the system. Look at your kettle and that is what parts of the cooling system will look like if you use tap water.
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This is misleading. Solids in the water is typically less than 1g per liter. The kettle sees a fresh inflow of perhaps 1000 liters a year, the cooling system after a couple of refills maybe 25.
The sediment in the kettle happens mainly at the heating element, where water boils off. A similar localised boiling does not happen in an engine, so most of the solids stay in suspension.
You can thus safely use tap water for your cooling system.
As for cleaning the matrix in situ. flush with a garden hose through the heater hoses, and change direction of flow from time to time. If you have access to compressed air, you can fill the matrix with water and give a blast of compressed air, to blow the content out under pressure. Do so with moderation, depending on the pressure. If you empty the outflow in a white bucket, you can see the results, I guess you will be fine without any descaler.
Let us know how you get on.
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