Radiator Flush

fusion1

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Is it safe to flush a radiator with white vinegar
my Ferguson TO-30 needs done
I have heard that you can use white vinegar

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I’ve always done it, I let it run enough to get it hot then let it cool down, then do several flushes with just a bit of baking soda to stop the acid.
 
We've used washing soda with good success & it's more economical than baking soda. Do as many "washes" as needed to get to where a rusty color is absent. Dissolve a couple of cups in the water needed to fill the radiator, get it hot, drain while hot. If not satisfied with the color of the drain water, do it until you are satisfied with the color. Then we rince with viniger. Well water in our part of the world has a low pH.
 
I done it in many old tractors. Straight vinegar. Drain the old stuff out then fill with vinegar and run till good and warm. Then drain it out while still warm but not hot. Then rig up a way to hook a garden hose to the block drain and back flush the system. I would not use baking soda because think what happen when you mix vinegar and baking soda you sure don't want that in the cooling system
 
If it were me I would remove the radiator and have it professionally flushed. I've never had any luck with any kind of DIY flush.
 
well i have yet to see vinegar work in a rad with plugged cores. it takes a hot tank with caustic over night of soaking to remove that scale from the cores.
 
Can't say about white vinegar as i have never tried it , what i do know that works is and Iron tite product . I had a choice of either running the War Dept.'s car off a cliff, cleaning it with five gallon of diesel and a match , digging a deep hole and making it disaper due to one half the heater core being plugged or pulling the dash and heater and putting a new heater core in it and that is something that i just can't do anymore . At one point in time before we got the car some one put the wrong antifreeze in it , this did the number on the cooling and heating . I let the goat store flush the system and there highly trained staff put the wrong stuff back in and had to try and clean it again . to replace the heater core we were talking 12-1400 bucks . That is a tough pill to swallow . I looked around for some OLD fashion rad cleaner and had no luck and tried several products that you get at the parts store and they all were a waist of money. I was talking with another friend and he told me about the Irontite product and hey whats another 30 bucks . I got a bottle and i really did set down and read the instructions on the bottle . Now not want to clean any thing but the heater core i blocked off the rest of the system and made up a elcheapo drill power pumpsystem and some clear plastic tubing and old metal bucket that i could put lots of heat in and get the water temp up to around 200 degrees and back flush . well guess what it worked and plum cleaned the heater gore out in 12 mins of run time ya can not believe the junk it cleaned out of the core , now there is heat on the passenger side . Total cost was around 60 bucks .
 

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