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Ugh, O'reilly dexcool

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Bigjoe980

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Went and picked some of that 50/50 up for the gtp (I need to get it flushed, but new clean coolant is better than nothing, right?) Started pouring it in through my funnel, a couple DROPS of that **** splashed onto my fingers and they swelled up instantly... Stuff is just off the charts nasty!

Got pretty paranoid I might have gotten some on the ground (we have stray cats around) and with what it did with a few drops, I can only imagine drinking it. Might have went a little over board cleaning it up
 


green is nice, but I do love how when this orange crap corrodes you get a get nice fat glob of indicator, (maybe it's just me, but) it immediately makes me want to go through and check things that I would other wise put off.
 


Oh jeez, I had a real dumbass moment yesterday.. I forgot to make sure my overflow cap was tight. So I go for a drive, some bumps here and there, yada yada... well I started to notice some kind of funny odor. It ended up spraying onto the motor, the rim/tire, the radiator, and of ofcourse my airbox.


I think the smell of burning dexcool is enough to give somebody cancer, lol. Made my nose start to bleed anyways.
 
BillBoost37 said:
Overflow should never be that full... unless you are a 97/98 and even then.. it wouldn't be that full
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Ya sure? It is a 98 with a tiny ass overflow wedged right up by the airbox..... It's allways been about 50-60% full... but it is easily possible I added too much!



And the bumps weren't exactly enough to bounce off the ground, but they were ...eh, "shook the car around after a 40mph deep pothole " bad at worst
 
If you swelled up quickly from touching coolant, you may have an allergy to something in it. Propylene glycol allergies are actually pretty common.
 


The Guz said:
You should do the coolant relocation with the 99+ overflow bottle.
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It was actually like this from the showroom floor *shrugs* Only thing bugging me about it is the air hole on the tank.. tends to end up getting one drop or so worked out of it.. and I like to run without the top of my air box, so where does it suck into? lol. I'm sick of the tiny pinkish/orange spot on my air filter, *sigh* the price of a better, cheap, whine.
 
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