What type of water to use !

yukon73 · Nov 23, 2015

What type of water should I use to mix my antifreeze for my 1952 8N....Well water...bottle water...city water...distilled water...I have reverse osmosis well water or softened well water? I live in Michigan (cold) ??????

reomack · Nov 23, 2015

I have always used what ever was the handiest. I think bottled water would be overkill. Doubt if too many farmers used anything other than well water.

souNdguy · Nov 23, 2015

getting technical, distilled water is likely the best of your choices.

I've never used anything other than well water ( in florida ), and no issues.

DGinVT · Nov 23, 2015

I use only distilled water in cutting antifreeze and use it only in my batteries. I get it by the gallon at the grocery chain store.

Tiger Joe · Nov 23, 2015

While distilled water is probably technically the "best" choice, I'd venture to say that 99% of all the Ns have whatever water source was the closest in their radiators.

Dell (WA) · Nov 23, 2015

yukon73.......uh? yukon is in Alaska, isn't it??? You kenn already buy 50/50 green anti-freeze already mixed fer people like you. Good fer minus 35-deg. (-35*) Iff'n I remember my chemistry, reverse osmosis is essentially the same as distilled water ...ie... NO MINERALS. Go with that. CAUTION: iff'n you mix yer own anti-freeze, you need to add water pump lube. Wynn's was a brand name supplier. BIG TIP: check yer rear tires fer traction enhancing water weight. Shuld have calcium chloride (salt) as an anti-freeze. Taste it, its NOT poisonous. ........the amazed Dell

Ultradog MN · Nov 23, 2015

I use the kind of water that's made with H2O - tap water, river water, lake water - if it's clean.

Ron-MO · Nov 23, 2015

If your N is anything like mine - it has had everything in it from well water to something dipped out of a nearby stream. I know one of my tractors has had whatever was in the nearby stream put in once when I had a leak and needed to add after the leak was repaired (no well nearby, and certainly no distilled water). Any of the above would be fine in my opinion.

rvirgil_KS · Nov 23, 2015

If available, I use water from our dehumidifier

Bob - MI · Nov 23, 2015

It won't matter as long as its clean. I would bet that most all the water available in Michigan in 1952 was well water.

Jimmyjack · Nov 23, 2015

As long as it is wet it is ok.

Dean · Nov 23, 2015

I've used nothing but distilled water in cooling systems since reading lab retports while a design engineer at GM years ago.

Dean

HCooke · Nov 23, 2015

Agree. My well water has a lot of calcium carbonate in it. Actually I buy the premixed stuff. But if not not premixed, I use distilled water.

Royse · Nov 23, 2015

I'm in Michigan too; Ionia County.
Cold isn't the issue with the type of water.
Contaminants and minerals/calcium are.
I have very hard well water so I use distilled water.
Either that or I buy it pre-mixed with distilled water.
Watch what brand you buy though, not all use distilled water.
RO water would work well too. I don't think I'd dump the salt
water from a water softener in their to cause even more rust.

As the others have said, these tractors have had everything in
them over the years and they live on. Question now is, how
can you treat it best with what's available.
Distilled water is cheap.

John in Mich · Nov 23, 2015

Our '51 got well water and alcohol for winter. Just water for the summer. Engine is on 3rd rebuild and runs great. It gets the 50/50 mix now.

Tom N MS · Nov 23, 2015

LOL--exactly what I was thinking..and have always done..Now if I buy that new Kubota I have been wanting forever I might boil the pond water to kill the tadpoles..might even strain them out

showcrop · Nov 24, 2015

The only water that I would worry about using would be a surface water source. many municipal supplies have huge lake reservoirs. The water can be very acidic, and harmful to engines.

Bonnan · Nov 25, 2015

I use "distilled water" recycled from our dehumidifiers.

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