I was just browsing around YouTube looking through videos about flushing oil out of a radiator. I came across this video - A guy running dishwasher detergent through his diesel cooling system and driving it around. Normally, I'd run if I saw something unconventional like this, but I thought I'd toss it out there. The guy seems to know his way around the truck and comments on this video are fairly positive.
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Now, if putting dish washing detergent into the cooling system is safe, than this seems like it'd do a great job cleaning my oily new/old radiator. I don't know the maintenance history of my new truck, so I was planning to flush just about everything that can be flushed anyhow. Freaks me out the way people in the forums are so darn particular about the cooing system in these trucks. Normally, I wouldn't care so much, however, the way people talk makes me feel like the cylinder wall is made out of a sheet construction paper.
Prolly going to get a few head ***** for thinking about turning my truck into the worlds most powerful dish washing machine.
The only reason I'm considering it is because this oily old radiator from the autoyard is going to heat up once I install it and then it'll leech oil sludge into my freshly flushed system. I'm definitely going to fill it with dawn and shake it up, rinse and repeat before the install.
What happens when a bit of oil sludge gets into the cooling system?
Is it safe to wash a radiator with tap water if I flush with distilled afterwards?
And Is it safe to flush a cooling system with tap water if I do a final flush with distilled?