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Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:05 pm
by haydn callow
Did you know...Toyota do a Red coolant that has a reagent in it which turns the coolant yellow at the first sign of exaust gasses in the mix ???
Interesting..

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:06 pm
by Jolly Rogers
That sounds interesting, Handy thing to have .

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:05 pm
by David Edwards
Right Haydn, when you flog it I'll have some, lol. :D

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:11 pm
by maxheadroom
Thats enough to put me off buying a Toyota if they think their heads are going to blow :D

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:18 pm
by scanner
maxheadroom wrote:Thats enough to put me off buying a Toyota if they think their heads are going to blow :D
Just what I was thinking, Toyota must have had a lot of gasket problems to go to that trouble.

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:23 pm
by haydn callow
Don't know much about it...Saw it on a Land Cruiser forum whilst researching a new type of sensor for us to use.

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:35 pm
by oldgit
When I had my headgasket repaired at a garage which turned out bad, they were repairing a head on a toyota previa, and the chap said that that is what they were used to, so from that I can only assume that they had repaired a few toyota headgaskets in their time as mechanics.

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:27 pm
by dobby
Have a look at this site:

http://blockchek.com/index.htm

No idea what it costs?

What do you think Haydn - worth a further look? Could something similar be done using the toyota fluid as a test device perhaps?

Re: Magic Coolant

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:37 am
by The Great Pretender
oldgit wrote:When I had my headgasket repaired at a garage which turned out bad, they were repairing a head on a toyota previa, and the chap said that that is what they were used to, so from that I can only assume that they had repaired a few toyota headgaskets in their time as mechanics.
The Previa and Estima have similar problems to the Bongo as they share a similar coolant system design.