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chrs1961815 · 04-08-2019, 06:27 PM

The last two times I have taken the Roadster out, I have had blow back from the quail with over heating. The first time it happened, I thought that the antifreeze that was in the car originally was the problem. So I drained the radiator which had some chunks in it and flushed some water down into. I refilled it with prestone 50/50 (plenty of it too and ran it in the garage with no problems. I thought I was in the clear (which was foolish because it was just running in neutral so it never got a chance to heat up as in a driving situation). Took it out today with problems again, maybe worse. Got to 200 degrees right after I turned the car off and 210 after 5 minutes. What should I do?

My wife saw something that Les Andrews wrote about distilled water and some additive that I can't remember that made the car run better because antifreeze decreases the freezing point.

04-08-2019, 06:27 PM	#1
chrs1961815 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Spring Grove, Illinois Posts: 1,371	Overheating Problems The last two times I have taken the Roadster out, I have had blow back from the quail with over heating. The first time it happened, I thought that the antifreeze that was in the car originally was the problem. So I drained the radiator which had some chunks in it and flushed some water down into. I refilled it with prestone 50/50 (plenty of it too and ran it in the garage with no problems. I thought I was in the clear (which was foolish because it was just running in neutral so it never got a chance to heat up as in a driving situation). Took it out today with problems again, maybe worse. Got to 200 degrees right after I turned the car off and 210 after 5 minutes. What should I do? My wife saw something that Les Andrews wrote about distilled water and some additive that I can't remember that made the car run better because antifreeze decreases the freezing point.