T-flushes

[Sayjac]

Originally Posted By: timish
Originally Posted By: Coolant_Man
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
But this is kind of like your Dexcool sky is falling arguments.

Dex-Cool sucks. Plain and simple. Instead of GM admitting to using an inferior product, they have probably spent millions to make an inferior product work in their cooling systems.

It kind of reminds me of the Space Race Days. America was so determined to have an ink pen that would write in the space and spent millions developing one. And the Russians? They used pencils.


That is a total [censored] story about the US pen and Russian pencil.

NASA NEVER requested the money spent. Fisher went Snopes Space Pen about it on their own to create the "pressure pen"


Maybe snopes has a Dexcool section too.

OOOPPPSS!

Looks like that analogy's not working out too well. Another urban legend debunked.

 

[Coolant_Man]

Well thanks for the history lesson, but the truth remains that Deathcool is still an inferior product.

 

[wander2039]

Never had a T flush before the Festiva I just bought. Some how since I've owned it the "T" has started leaking. Everything's tight so not sure where it's coming from.. you think oil stinks when it hits the cat that's nothing compared to coolant. I will say the cooling system does look real clean. I'm going to remove it and do partials as normal.. just another thing to break.

 

[FL-400S]

I bought the T flush but didnt use it. I didnt want to cut any lines and it was in a difficult place to get to. I thought about getting another piece of hose same diameter and splicing in the T temporarily, but by the time I had flushed a couple of times and found the block drain, I didnt really need to use the T.

 

[HTSS_TR]

I had T-flushes in many cars, It's so convenience and fast to flush I would not flush coolant system without it.

If you don't want to cut any heater hose, you can get a foot or two heater hose from any auto parts store and splicing in the T-flush, remove the inlet heater hose and install the hose with T-flush without any clamp to do a quick flush.

 

[mechanicx]

Yeah but it's easier to just cut the heater hose and install the T-flush. It's easier especially the next time you go to flush the system. Cutting the hose doesn't hurt it, and the T-Flush doesn't normally ever leak.

 

[HTSS_TR]

I agreed, my 1994 LS400 had heater inlet hose cut and T-flush was installed around 97-98. No leak around the T-flush and/or heater hose until last month, I changed the inlet hose from the engine to the heater control valve, and the T-flush is back on now.

It's possible to use the T-flush without cutting heater hose, but it's not as convenience.