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General Buick Tech / Re: New Cooling System what to use?
« on: September 28 2020, 02:46:32 PM »
What gets me is how selective it is.
Wars have been waged with the amount of emotion behind brand names (not weights) of oil, yet nobody gives a shit about brand of transmission fluid. Mobil1 'destroys engines' but Wal*Mart (where I get mine) is fine ATF, nobody cares.
Then, you got the guys that change the oil every 300 miles, or once a month, and probably still has the original brake fluid in the car from the 80's. And nobody gives a crap about gear dope brand or weight or type. (There are the 'experts' that say you have to run posi-additive on a 150,000 G80... They just don't know why. And I never run whale snot in my G80. It's too worn to need it. ESP with my synthetic dope).
The cooling system can sometimes we worse than oil. If a car runs hot because the radiator is clogged the solution is NOT to install a non-clogged radiator.... You have to have some hi-dollar all aluminum wizbang radiator that can keep the ISS cool when out sun goes supernova.
Oh and you have to have a cooling fan that pulls 1000amps and sucks harder than a Thai hooker.... too cool down the 15hp a car makes at idle. None of that heat comes from the Massive parasitic drag from the 10,000 amp alternator blowing through the 16 gauge charge lead...
...even though the grill opening is always the same size and air still weighs the same 8/100#/ft3.
To quote Travis W. Redfish (Meatloaf) from the movie ''Roadie''... ''Things will work if you just let 'em''.
Wars have been waged with the amount of emotion behind brand names (not weights) of oil, yet nobody gives a shit about brand of transmission fluid. Mobil1 'destroys engines' but Wal*Mart (where I get mine) is fine ATF, nobody cares.
Then, you got the guys that change the oil every 300 miles, or once a month, and probably still has the original brake fluid in the car from the 80's. And nobody gives a crap about gear dope brand or weight or type. (There are the 'experts' that say you have to run posi-additive on a 150,000 G80... They just don't know why. And I never run whale snot in my G80. It's too worn to need it. ESP with my synthetic dope).
The cooling system can sometimes we worse than oil. If a car runs hot because the radiator is clogged the solution is NOT to install a non-clogged radiator.... You have to have some hi-dollar all aluminum wizbang radiator that can keep the ISS cool when out sun goes supernova.
Oh and you have to have a cooling fan that pulls 1000amps and sucks harder than a Thai hooker.... too cool down the 15hp a car makes at idle. None of that heat comes from the Massive parasitic drag from the 10,000 amp alternator blowing through the 16 gauge charge lead...
...even though the grill opening is always the same size and air still weighs the same 8/100#/ft3.
To quote Travis W. Redfish (Meatloaf) from the movie ''Roadie''... ''Things will work if you just let 'em''.
