Fabic Conditioner in your Stag engine?

[Tdm]

I have just been talking with an English mechanic who works here about cars in general, and he said for Alloy heads it is a good idea to put a thimble full of Fabric Conditioner (the type you put in your washing machine) in your cooling system as it would soften the water and protect your Heads more.
The tap water in Tenerife is rubbish and should not be used to top up your radiator without an additive, and that is why he said to add the Fabric Conditioner.
It is new one on me but I am willing to try it, what do the experts on here think?

[sjm]

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Hi Terry,

Well it will smell alot betterand can be used for any colours.

Steve

[alan230752]

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pop a water softener tablet in there

works a treat


alan

[alan230752]

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alan230752 wrote:

pop a water softener tablet in there

works a treat


alan

fairy liquid would be fun also


stick to antifreeze and distilled water


Historically, Rolls-Royce developed an inhibitor formulation specifically for the aluminum block and heads in the Merlin and Griffon aero engines and this was specified for the V8-engined cars. This formulation was adopted as a British Standard – BS3150 (aluminum), BS3151 (cast iron), from memory.
BS3151 coolant corrosion inhibitor formulations were different. Modern readily available antifreezes have superseded these older British Standards.

50% antifreeze and 50% water (distilled), DO NOT use tap water cause you cut the life in half and have calcium built up! Distilled water isn't expensive. New engines are expensive.

[Tdm]

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alan230752 wrote:

alan230752 wrote:

pop a water softener tablet in there

works a treat


alan

fairy liquid would be fun also


stick to antifreeze and distilled water


Historically, Rolls-Royce developed an inhibitor formulation specifically for the aluminum block and heads in the Merlin and Griffon aero engines and this was specified for the V8-engined cars. This formulation was adopted as a British Standard – BS3150 (aluminum), BS3151 (cast iron), from memory.
BS3151 coolant corrosion inhibitor formulations were different. Modern readily available antifreezes have superseded these older British Standards.

50% antifreeze and 50% water (distilled), DO NOT use tap water cause you cut the life in half and have calcium built up! Distilled water isn't expensive. New engines are expensive.

I have always used a 50 / 50 mix although I know there are some on here who advocate a different ratio, and I usually have plenty of distilled water available.
Strangely enough out hear my coolant never seems to want topping up, well not since I last did a Head Gasket change a few years ago, and temp. gauge never reads above the letter "E" on the dial no matter hot it gets outside, and in Summer it is hot.

[GDPR]

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You can imagine the jingle.......

"Stag engines live longer with Calgon......"

Just use a short spin cycle

[stustag]

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kryten wrote:

You can imagine the jingle.......

"Stag engines live longer with Calgon......"

Just use a short spin cycle

LOVL

[Paul Goldsmith]

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Distilled water all the way, a large barrel only costs about £7 and lasts ages but even the 5L bottles are about £2 a pop - a false economy not too IMO !

I never use calgon in our washing machine, if you work how much it costs over the lifetime of a machine the economics don't stack up in my view. I'm the last one to treat goods as diposable (our house is a real 'retro heaven' !) and always buy makes which can be repaired should they go wrong. Living in Norfolk the water is fairly hard but never had a major problem with scale.

[Moraystag]

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The water up here in the NE of Scotland is very soft, and you can see this in the kettle, we get absolutely no scale in the kettle whats so ever. So gent's do you want me to send down a wee bit oh gods own purest H2o, and I don't mean Whisky LOL

[Paul Goldsmith]

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Yes please - but postage could be hefty

Please could you send it down in de-hydrated form to save on postage and we can re-hydrate this end as/when it's needed :P

[mjheathcote]

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Super soft water here too!

Our kettle is 10 years old and no scale at all