TravisCadello

Got a 55Gallon Drum at work off this Castrol HT offshore antifreze its a 50/50 mix looks exactly like preston except a little lighter green like more water. Think it'll be okay to run? my boss says its pretty much same **** just for offshore machines.


i jus figured its free and maybe has better cooling and rust additives in it.

TravisCadello

Its called Castrol Transaqua HT. Product code:62339

Gemner

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are you draining and replacing perfectly good antifreeze or do you NEED new antifreeze?

TravisCadello

Haven't Done it yet cause i flushed my Max's 4 months ago n its full of perfect 5050 prestone.. think I'm gonna Run it on my Girls 03 Civic first cuz its rusted water n id rather fuc hers up then mine lol. as long as it prevents rust and Freases should work the same or much better.

Gemner

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Has anyone ever had rusty water in their max's coolant? Just out of curiosity. The coolant in mine is 150k miles old and looks identical to the day it came off the showroom floor, if it didnt have antifreeze in it it would be drinkable. Kind of a surprise that an 03 civic would have rusty fluid, where would there be anything in that system to rust?

TravisCadello

Rust can come from everything. Engine block, water pump, Radiator and I agree maximas did somthin right cuz they all stay beautiful never rust but any other car does.

Gemner

iTrader: (4)

rust only comes from iron parts. The max doesnt get rusty water because the engine, heads, etc are all aluminum. I was mostly curious if the civic has iron somewhere, I would have expected a civic to be all aluminum as well.

TravisCadello

Our waterpumps fins are iron.

TravisCadello

well i had a 400 mile round trip did fine their but commin bac at 3400rpms for a hr i exited and sat at a light for few mins it started overheating fast pulled over fans were on hi. heat on ,new radiator n thermostat still overheated. flushed it out put a 30/70 mixture mostly water before was pure antifrease...now thermostat gauge has stayed at a quarter never higher! normally dam near halfway.


hmm