Well I let Guzzy slide by! But when Fred chimes in on me I guess I better answer.
Hey anybody can quote the ads on the bottle and anybody can read the theory. But it seems I am the only one here that has put it to actual practise. I have heard that the desert tribes have used glycol in their rides since the 30's. Sure the label sez it freezes, and it does. Near -10 it gets slushy...not hard yet but slushy. Sure it will burn. that said now YOU make some attempts to get it to burn! I have never been able to do it. You will find it near if not completely impossible to burn it. It ain't the vapor that burns like gasoline.
Then we get to the part about it not absorbing heat.. Ok at WHAT temp is it behind water in heat absorbsion? And how MUCH behind is it? It is easy to parrot the theory and not have a clue about what it means. See this is all smoke and mirrors as far as I am concerned.
I'll say it again. I have lots and lots of pure glycol vehicles running around. Does anyone else? I have never seen a glycol fire, has anyone else?
If water is so much better that glycol why does the label say 50/50 mix when 70/30 is more water and a lower freezing point?
The truth would come out with a simple test of the radiator outlet hose temp. ONE day I will find the time and make that test.
And the 220 engine temp is completely false! Them numbers are strickly to protect the coolant from boiling out. In actual fact I'd bet the engine and it's lubricant would rather see 250/260*. Remember we are talking about iron here not the coolant. I have had drivers tell me they thought their race car went faster the last few turns before shoving a rod out.
Of course I am only talking here about vehicles that NEVER will see a temp lower than -10/15*F. Everyone else is arbitrarely left out.
We all must remember that everything we read has already been approved by the writers lawyers! When I was young we had a saying "if there is any doubt whip it out"... But the damn lawyers have changed all that.
Big Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
