Reply to: RE>Re: RE>Re- Mouse, the Jag t
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Date: 1/4/91
To: Jerry Kaidor
From: relay.hp.com!hp-pcd.cv.hp.com!h
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> Here's a quick and simple test for electrolysis/corrosion... Take a
> voltmeter, ground one probe, and stick the other into your coolant at the
> radiator fill hole. A system in bad condition will show some voltage on the
> meter.... No, I don't know offhand what numbers to expect.
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> - Jerry Kaidor
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Good point. This is not a workable solution but when I was a sailor we had
zinc slugs bolted to the propeller shaft. Electrolis would attack the
zinc, being a more active metal and leave the rest of the sailboat alone.
Actually, you _CAN_ get a sacrificial element that dangles from your
radiator cap into the coolant. J.C. Whitney sells them. Also, you can get a
filter-with-sacrificial-element that goes in one of the heater hoses. They're
made for big trucks. But I've found that as long as you run distilled water,
there's no problem anyway.
- Jerry Kaidor
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