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Old 05-28-2019, 05:51 PM
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Would this be from what appeared to be a cheap mini-radiator, or something more catastrophic?
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Old 05-28-2019, 06:03 PM
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I know its very clean but it did run for 15 minutes or so before i shut it off, because original problem was not fixed yet..
No flakes in oil...
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Flakes in the coolant can be from a large number of things. A cheap radiator is the highest possibility of the source. Flush it, fill it, send it.
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That's what I was thinking too, swapping to a full size and didn't want to mess it up...
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If you (or anyone else) has ever used stop leak in the system it can look like that as well.
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I haven't...I know better, but thanks for the advice.. I'm going to flush everything and have a full size alpha series to put back in the halves place...
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