View Poll Results: Do you always use filtered water when doing a flush
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Regular hose water in a coolant flush
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Personally, I always use distilled water....but, as mentioned before, as long as the tap water you used isn't well water and is clean & drinkable, I think you should be fine. Not to mention your car is better off now with tap water & Dex than before you flushed the system!
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Have any of you had issues with your waterpumps going out right after a coolant flush? I am reading all these posts about you guys flushing your cooling systems and yet when I did mine on my 98 Z28; the waterpump took a **** like a couple days later. I have heard the Dexcool may have caused it; what do you all think?
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Have any of you had issues with your waterpumps going out right after a coolant flush? I am reading all these posts about you guys flushing your cooling systems and yet when I did mine on my 98 Z28; the waterpump took a **** like a couple days later. I have heard the Dexcool may have caused it; what do you all think?
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Have any of you had issues with your waterpumps going out right after a coolant flush? I am reading all these posts about you guys flushing your cooling systems and yet when I did mine on my 98 Z28; the waterpump took a **** like a couple days later. I have heard the Dexcool may have caused it; what do you all think?
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Have any of you had issues with your waterpumps going out right after a coolant flush? I am reading all these posts about you guys flushing your cooling systems and yet when I did mine on my 98 Z28; the waterpump took a **** like a couple days later. I have heard the Dexcool may have caused it; what do you all think?
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There is a actually a class lawsuit going on about Dexicrap, which is why I will never use it again. GFGI.
However, AFA coolant, I have run distilled water since destroying a radiator on my RM125 in 1981 with chemical reactions (used city water at the time, not well water). Distilled water = No chemicals, no minerals. Other water, where are the dice?
I will flush it with tap water, but always rinse all that out with distilled water b/f starting to fill the system. Distilled water is inexpensive compared to an engine or cooling system rebuild. And they make coolant that claims to be Dexi compatible without all the Dexi issues.
However, AFA coolant, I have run distilled water since destroying a radiator on my RM125 in 1981 with chemical reactions (used city water at the time, not well water). Distilled water = No chemicals, no minerals. Other water, where are the dice?
I will flush it with tap water, but always rinse all that out with distilled water b/f starting to fill the system. Distilled water is inexpensive compared to an engine or cooling system rebuild. And they make coolant that claims to be Dexi compatible without all the Dexi issues.