Does it become inert after a few weeks with air on it? Or am I thinking of some other fluid

 

I basically run straight water because it's easier to flush it that way. Just hook the flush kit to the hose and run the engine for a few minutes with the drain cock open. I add a little bit of antifreeze when it comes to winter time but only if it starts getting down there in temps. These mild winters the last few years haven't really bothered me.

When I actually bothered to collect used antifreeze, I either flushed it down the toilet or poured it into my fluid waste bottles with the oil and brake fluid and tranny fluid I'd managed to avoid spilling on my driveway. Then I took those to discount.

 

Discount only takes oil.

The only way I can get rid of it LEGALLY (i have a guilty concenence (sp?)) is to wait for the first saturday of the month and take it to the Hills County Chemical Collection up by the dumb on linebaugh OR see if pep boys will take it tomarrow. Im not into flushing it or pouring it down the drive way, I live in a nice neighborhood and don't want to fuck it up

 

yeah, discount/advance auto only takes motor oil, tranny fluid, and gear oil. id take it to that Hills County Chemical Collection place bumpin is talking about, i do remember my friend telling me about that, i couldnt remember the name of the place, but i remember the first sat of the month thing.

 

Electrolysis is destroying your motor as we speak.

 

Theoretically, the water wetter I put in should allow me to run straight water without any fun corrosive effects from aluminum head/iron block reactions. It also theoretically lubes the water pump, which is the other thing people say antifreeze is supposed to do. On top of that, I am running a little bit of antifreeze that I've dumped in at various times, just not a lot. If it ends up destroying my engine, well, I'll have proven that water wetter doesn't do what it should and I'll go pick up another shortblock for 100 bucks and slap my other head on it.

 

lob it over your niehgbors fence.

 

Good point, I've been pretty annoyed by these new Mobil synthetic oil ads claiming their oil was good for 15,000 miles, I was thinking about trying to prove them wrong, but then I realized what a retarded idea that was

 

bbb, I dont think that would be the best idea. The way it would work is, you run for 15000 miles and its fine....change it and run 1500 and it blows up

 

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