We take our car and truck’s radiators and cooling systems for granted. That is until our radiator boils over and we realize the intrinsic efforts that our rads perform.
Internal combustion cooling systems and radiator carry away the great amount of heat generated by the combustive burning of gasoline fuel / air mixtures in the cylinders of our car’s engines. True engine oil carries away about half of the waste heat energy to be exhausted. Yet at the end of the road it’s the radiator coolant liquid flowing through your radiator that exits that heat effectively and fully.
The Three Destructive Forces to Every Radiator:
Yet inside and deep inside each and every automobile’s radiator system are three destructive saboteurs waiting patiently over the miles waiting to do their damage. Its no secret that a car , truck or Sports Utility SUV vehicle always have a tough tough time doing its job that is was designed for and intended to do – that is carry off waste and excess heat.
Rust & Electrolysis Doing Their Jobs of Clogging & Eroding Your Copper Rad:
Rust may clog your rad’s tiny passages. Hard water deposits a scale and scaling that effectively reduces heat transfer and the ability of the cooling system and engine coolant to transfer that heat away from your closed cooling system. And on top of that if two different metals touch each other and come into contact inside the system, it’s a fact of the laws of chemistry that electrolytic corrosion will no doubt occur. This is a law of nature and always holds 100 % true and can be counted on to occur, given the right conditions.
Conditions in Engine Radiators Are Perfect for Rust to Do Its Destruction and Damage:
Yet conditions inside your radiator and cooling system are basically tailor made for this situation to occur. Rust generally makes up about 90 % of all the solids and solid materials that can choke up and engine’s water jacket and radiator.
Cooling Systems Scale Deposits:
Scale is a deposit of solids left by evaporation and boiling of hard water, such as often occurs in a water kettle or coffee maker. What the solids are precisely depends on the water source and your local water source specifically. Common and popular contaminants that can be counted on to occur as dissolved and particulate matters in the water that you add to your radiator and top up radiator cooling fluids include calcium carbonate , calcium sulphate and magnesium oxides.
Electrolysis & Electrolytic Damage Occurring in Your Copper Radiator is Guaranteed:
Electrolytic ( that is electrical current and ion flow generated) corrosion can occur from soldered seams in copper radiators, copper gaskets in contact with iron and steel blazed joints in steel tubes, and even imperfect plating on steel and iron parts.
Simply put and stated an electric current is set up and the metal most electro-chemically slowly dissolves.
Summary Three Destructive Forces & Processes Impair Your Radiator’s Effectiveness:
At the end of the road and your journeys the enemy of your radiator working well and effectively, doing it job removing waste heat and not spring any leaks are rust, scale and chemical electrolysis.
Bill S. Surrey
Bill has been employed as an auto service tech writer at a major BC – Williams Lake used car dealer
His philosophy and that he was solidly with is that it his responsibility to advise customers on upcoming service and maintenance
Its not oversell or an upsell in his mind but rather proper and full service , attention to detail , best long term auto budget economy and safety
Reliable transportationand truck sales Vancouver BC is what Bill Surrey provides
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