welcome do dexcool haha.

 

No, I just changed and flushed coolant less than 1 year/4k miles. Going to check into it today.

 

Just got it changed. They used a cleaning agent and sucked out "orange milkshake". Replaced with coolant, NOT Dex. Hope that takes care of it. I need to be at the Daytona 500 on Saturday!

 

something else you might check is your power steering fluid. Sometimes the power steering cooler will leak and there is a transfer of fluid from one to the other. Pretty common.

 

I don't see any lines going from PS to radiator?

 

I've never had any issues with any of my Dexcool cars. Stuff looks brand new still on both of my vehicles.

 

Didn't anyone tell you mixing green with dex is not good

 

He's not mixing, he's replacing.

 

Thank you. Yes, a suitable replacement.

 

Flush out and change the DexCool at 5 years OR 100k miles, which ever come first!

Failed to do it on my '99 Blazer and it turned to the consistancy of mud by the time I realized. Made sure I got it flushed out and changed at 5 yrs on the SS, and no problems.

 

This is 100% TRUTH.
Regular coolant - flush every 2 years
Dex - Every 2-5 years, depending on how well your system seals. Worse sealin and harsher conditions = change more often.
Pick your color but DO NOT MIX!

The only problem with Dexcool is it doesn't tolerate air all that well. It builds sludge only in poorly sealing systems. This sound familiar to anyone that's looked at our milk jug reservoirs with shitty caps lately?

 

Forget all the coolant talk, where you live all you need is 80% distilled water and the rest Dexcool. Or regular hose water if its good clean water. The whole distilled water thing is way overplayed. I did that for alot of years and for the past 5-6, just hose water. My system is perfect.

My factory coolant was 4 1/2 years old before the system was opened up to install my new engine, it was perfectly clean. If your system is sealed, it'll stay clean and last for 10 years, period.

Make sure its not ths PS cooler or you're just wasting your time with a flush.

Best/easiest way to flush.
Cold engine.
Remove radiator fill cap.
Remove the t-stat. (2-3 minute job)
Put t-stat housing back on. (1 minute)
Take the entire radiator drain valve (petcock) "off", don't just open it. It'll drain faster with it off and thats what you want. ((Buy a new petcock, sometimes they break when you remove them all the way, they're like $2.00))
Take a hose and stick it in the radiator fill cap, running medium to high.
Start the engine.
Let it run for about 15-20 minutes or until the water is running out the drain CLEAR.
When it does your entire system is clean.
Put the t-stat back in.
Put the drain valve back in. Use the new one, what the hell.
Put half a jug of Dexcool in the radiator.
Fill the rest with water. (one bottle of water wetter can't hurt, your choice)
**Let it run and warm up till the t-stat opens once and starts to flow, to see if the level drops, just to make sure the system is completely full of coolant, if it drops just top it off**

Done.

If your system is sealed, don't mess with it for another 5 years or more.

 

wow glad i came across this, made me paranoid and run out and check my coolant (been meaning to anyways), sure enough, brown sludge, looks like my next day off = radiator flush

 

Is this where the brown crap comes from?? Mixing the two??? Cuz I have the same build up in a 95 v6. Car seems to run a little on the hot end when idling but seems to cool back down while driving. I changed the coolant a few months ago and put GREEN in but didn't realize that there was a differnece. I'm not sure if the person that had it before me did the same thing but I think he did because it was like that when I got it.

 

From what I know, that stuff is supposed to be in there. Comes with it from the factory, a sort of leak stop. Heard it from 2 different mechanics.