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Good or bad Antifreeze brands?

I've been using long life anti-freeze the last 14 years and am more satified with it than I ever was with Prestone or any other brand. If you have a lot of units, can you buy in bulk in your area?
 
same here - I never quite got why anybody would buy the 50/50 stuff, given what they charge for it.

I buy what's cheapest. I've never had an antifreeze related incident.

Not saying it doesn't happen - just that I've never had any problems whatsoever, and therefore really don't care what I use.
 
There are only a couple manufacturers of anti-freeze in the coutry. The rest are just private labels, all from the same plant.
 
The premix contains distilled water so that your radiator doesn't clog with mineral deposits. If you buy the concentrate then also buy some distilled water to add to it. Don't use tap water.
 
The last time I bought any the premix was about half as much as the regular, and if I get regular I also need to buy some distilled water so I figure it costs about the same and premix eliminated the hassle of mixing or keeping track of if what you have is mixed yet or not.
 
A gallon of premix is $8 and a gallon of straight is $10. I guess I'll just get whatever I can find, then. Thanks guys.
 
Around here a gallon of straight has gone up to $15 in the last few weeks. And the Government says inflation is low.
Richard in NW SC
 
Just don't use the high silica antifreeze in a diesel motor. Some of the car anti freeze has additives for aluminum in it. These type will turn to kind of green jello around the sleeves. The it does not transfer heat and the sleeve over heats.

As others have stated if you mix your own then just make sure and use water without any minerals in it or you will be plugging your radiator.
 
As has been pointed out there are many brand names made by the same company,if you have had good luck with a certain brand stick with it.
in my humble opinion you should use the type that the manufacturer recomends. Newer vehicles have aluminum parts in cooling systems that require certain coolant for various reasons..including diesel applications etcI always used dexcool in my Gm and never had a cooling system issue or a leak.
 
Anti-freeze ain't just anti-freeze anymore. As someone has already pointed out, it depends on the metals in your engine. A particular brand may not matter that much, but a particular TYPE definitely will. It is possible now days to own six vehicles and need six different types of anti-freeze. At least check and make sure which type the vehicle manufacturer recommends or there could be problems down the road.
 
I should have mentioned this is just antifreeze to put in my Allis Chalmers WD. So just any regular old antifreeze should do? Or should I avoid extreme silica ones for it, as well?
 
Use distiled water/// Have over 100 vehicels in the fleet and have beed doing it for well over 50 years and never used anything but tap water. Haven,t had any raidator/or engine failures relative to the antifreeze. Maybe I am just luck but if your water is fit for human cunsumption don,t think mixing it with 50/50 antifreze will get enough minerals into the engine to cause any problems. Just my thoughts.. Lot more importand as jd seller says to get the right type antifreeze in each situation.
 
Well I got some distilled water since I need to fill up the battery next time I work on the tractor anyway, and it is pretty cheap and the tractor is somewhere that I'd have to haul water to anyway. So no big deal there.

What I just took out of the tractor was the old green stuff. So I assume I want something similar to put back in it.
 
I have been using Tractor Supply antifreeze for years with tap water. I buy the regular not premix.
 
Take that 5 gallons or what ever of tap water. And boil it on the stove until only the minerals are left.
You won"t add tap water to a cooling system ever again after seeing all the minerals.
 
(quoted from post at 22:00:39 09/26/12) Take that 5 gallons or what ever of tap water. And boil it on the stove until only the minerals are left.
You won"t add tap water to a cooling system ever again after seeing all the minerals.
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Yeah, right now I am flushing the radiator on my WD, and after I got all the green coolant out, I flushed it with about 3 gallons of water and got this ugly brown/yellow crap with junk in it.

Filled the thing up with water; fired the tractor up, and within 5 minutes all the water in the system looked yellow again.

So I am going to refill with a proper 50/50 mix as soon as I do another radiator flush. But yeah, I'd say the person before me did NOT use distilled water... There's too much crap in the system.
 
Been owning and driving vehicles and tractors for sixty years and tap water has workd fine. So I don't plan on changing--to old. Ha ha
 
Herald I believe that is distilled water. I always used to use it in antifreeze and batteries. My Maternal Grand Mother ran a dehumidifier in her basement. She always had gallons of the water around.
 
I've used "Washing Soda" for radiater flush, with
good results. I'ts available in the detergent
aisle,(or should be..but young people probably
don't know about using Washing Soda, for hard
water)It really helps flush out the gunk!
 
(quoted from post at 11:07:59 09/27/12) I've used "Washing Soda" for radiater flush, with
good results. I'ts available in the detergent
aisle,(or should be..but young people probably
don't know about using Washing Soda, for hard
water)It really helps flush out the gunk!
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I may need to do something like this, but I haven't had any overheating problems or anything -- but would just like to clean it out while I'm swapping stuff out.
 
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