Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please check the Forum Guidelines at the top of the Newbie section

Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Down

Author Topic: Best Radiator Flush Method?  (Read 1881 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

bappy

  • Junior Member
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • HAVANT, Hants
  • Posts: 196
  • Don't fart on the leather upholstery!
    • View Profile
Re: Best Radiator Flush Method?
« Reply #15 on: 12 August 2009, 21:16:21 »
dont know if this would be a good idea or not......


I have found, that when cleaning 'stuff' the most effective product by far (short of acid or caustic) is flash ultimate... it will lift pretty much anything off of metal.

at £2 a bottle might it be worth pouring a whole bottle into the top hose on the rad, waiting 2 mins then flushing with a hose????

I've never had call to flush a rad but that's what I'd do... I might also end up buying a new rad but hey ho...
Logged
If at first you dont succeed, Rev it harder!

Lazydocker

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Woodbridge, Suffolk
  • Posts: 18848
  • Constantly Bullied by a certain Admin
    • View Profile
Re: Best Radiator Flush Method?
« Reply #16 on: 12 August 2009, 23:04:33 »
Quote
Just done this, I used Fernox which is what is used on home central heating systems.

Mixed with boiling water, left it in the rad overnight then back flushed it till it all ran clear.

Out of the question at the moment... Haven't got time to have the rad out before Newent... Only just have enough time for a quick service so thought I'd flush at the same time :y :y :y
Logged
Whatever it is... I didn't do it

Pete Elite

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Uxbridge, Middlesex
  • Posts: 1749
    • View Profile
Re: Best Radiator Flush Method?
« Reply #17 on: 13 August 2009, 23:53:04 »
I've been having a problem with overheating(102.5 degrees on gauge)for about a week or more now so got 2 bottles of the Wynn's coolant flush and after first emptying the radiator out using the little red drainer and removing the top hose i then placed a hose in the header tank and just let it run for a while then repeated with hose in top of radiator(replaced hose and drainer)refilled and ran engine up to temp. with cap off and heater full on hot and repeated after it had cooled for a while.
 I then replaced hose and tightened drainer and inserted the contents of the Wynn's into the header tank and topped system up with water and ran engine up to temp.(again with cap off and heater on full hot)and once i was sure air was dispelled i took it for a short run and noticed an improvement straight away :).
 After leaving it over night i ran it up to temp. let it cool a while and repeated above procedure(but not the Wynn's bit :).
  I then put in 50/50 antifreeze mix started and ran up to temp. with cap off and dispelled any air and to date has been as good as gold(95 to 97.5 on gauge) :y.

       HTH,
             Pete :).
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.029 seconds with 17 queries.