**The Importance of Cooling System Maintenance**

When it comes to maintaining your vehicle's cooling system, it's essential to understand the importance of proper maintenance and the tools required to keep it running smoothly. In this article, we'll discuss the various aspects of cooling system maintenance, including how to use air hoses, flushes, and coolants.

**Using Air Hoses**

To clear any blockages in your cooling system, you can use an air hose. By inserting the hose into the block and letting it run for 10 or 15 minutes, you'll be able to blow out any debris that's accumulated. However, it's crucial to take the hoses off at various points, such as where the thermostat is located, and blow air through these areas. This will help dislodge any water that's become trapped in the system.

**Blowing Air with a High-Pressure Blower**

To effectively clear out your cooling system, you'll need a high-pressure blower, such as a Makita leaf blower. These types of blowers are designed for heavy-duty use and can help dislodge even the most stubborn blockages. When using a blower, it's essential to maintain a high volume rather than high pressure, as this will help prevent damage to your cooling system.

**Using Flushes**

After clearing out any debris with an air hose, you'll need to flush your cooling system to remove any remaining water and debris. A flush is used to clean the system and remove any impurities that may be causing problems. When using a flush, it's essential to follow proper procedures to avoid damaging your cooling system.

**Calibrating Coolant Levels**

To ensure that your coolant levels are accurate, you'll need to use a calibration tool. This will help you measure the water content in your coolant and determine if it's within the recommended range of 0-3%. If your coolant levels exceed this range, it may be causing problems with your cooling system.

**Choosing the Right Coolant**

When choosing a coolant for your vehicle, it's essential to select one that's suitable for your specific needs. Different coolants are formulated for different types of engines and vehicles, so it's crucial to choose one that meets your requirements. For example, high-performance coolants are designed for use in high-performance vehicles, while standard coolants are more suitable for everyday cars.

**The Importance of Preventative Maintenance**

Preventative maintenance is essential when it comes to keeping your cooling system running smoothly. Regular checks and maintenance can help prevent problems from occurring in the first place. This includes checking coolant levels, inspecting hoses and seals, and performing regular flushes.

**Using Coolant Filters**

Coolant filters are an essential part of maintaining a healthy cooling system. By cleaning these filters regularly, you'll be able to remove any debris or impurities that may be causing problems. A clean filter can help prevent corrosion, overheating, and other issues that can arise from dirty coolant.

**The Benefits of Using the Right Coolant**

Using the right coolant for your vehicle can make a significant difference in its performance and longevity. By selecting a high-quality coolant that meets your specific needs, you'll be able to prevent problems from occurring in the first place. This can help save time and money in the long run.

**Conclusion**

Maintaining your cooling system is crucial for ensuring the health and longevity of your vehicle. By following these tips and using the right tools, you'll be able to keep your cooling system running smoothly and prevent problems from arising. Remember to always choose the right coolant for your specific needs, perform regular maintenance checks, and use a coolant filter to ensure optimal performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to the episode of Jay Leno's Garage we're here once again with Mike tville he's uh is it marketing director is that what it is yes for Evans cool now if you've been to this website before you know we've done segments on Evans cool this is a waterless coolant uh what you do is you take the water out of the uh out of the cooling system in your car and you replace it with this waterless coolant and it's especially good for non pressurized systems like older cars anything from 1900 up until the present day I am slowly converting converting all of my cars to this and uh we did a web shoot once before where we uh where we talked about this and how it fights electrolysis and corrosion and it's life of the car coolant you never ever have to replace it I have had uh I've had it in some cars for 15th years my Bugatti has been in there well over 15 years and uh it's as clean as the day I put it in and uh the reason we're doing this update is uh I guess you have some new products on the market is that correct well it's an updated version of our old products yes yeah we have a a heavy duty product uh high performance and a power sports product that we didn't have with different formulations from last year right and this is an American company and the product is made here in America and uh the one thing I you just told me which I think is kind of cool is your biggest Market is China you're selling American Products to China which is nice to see instead of going way and until they copy it and steal it you should be very successful they're trying real hard too yeah so that's what we try to do here we try to promote American companies and americanmade products when we can and uh I think it's important and and that's why he flew out to tell us about this now what I suggest you do is before you watch this video go back and watch the other one and you'll see how corrosion was literally eating the inside of my dusenberg motor the cast iron part not so bad but the aluminum pieces the water jacket covers and all that oh my God they just got literally you could poke your finger through it you don't realize how how corrosion you think cu the water is moving all the time well it can't be that bad water uh although it's the best cooling thing there is it can be uh it can be very corrosive and very bad it comes with its problems yeah yes and everybody over time has just accepted uh those uh problems associated with water the low boiling point corrosion a big problem that's often over looked as electrolysis yeah and that degrades the metal as the coolant becomes more acidic over time it degrades the metal causing problems and usually those problems are from the inside out you don't see them right away yeah I uh when we pulled the uh water jacket Off My dusenberg Block I could put my hand inside and scrape up literally handfuls of aluminum uh corrosion it was it was unbelievable I stunned by that yeah and you don't see it because it's inside and when you see it and you go wow this could have been a catastrophic problem um if if you had allowed it to continue but as Jay said it's the life of the engine so once it's in you don't have to worry about it the engine the metal uh will stay clean um for years and years and years you never have to change this is especially good if you have an older car if you have a collector vehicle that you don't drive very often you put this coolant in and it can sit for 10 or 15 years and it's not going to corrode I think what's even more evident especially out here in Southern California is overheating right where you can just prevent overheating from happening because our the coolant boiling is 375° you won't get there right uh versus a low boiling point of water at 212 an under pressurized system might be might be 240 or so right but you have to 150° separation between the boiling point and the operating temperature of the coolant so you just won't overheat and then this LA traffic yeah I mean that's a nice thing you know I've got a lot of older cars and you're sitting in LA traffic it's 100° out and at 212 okay but then sh now the water is boiling out and overflowing and now you've got less water so the cars continues to get hotter and hotter whereas this it doesn't at 300° you can open the cap and you're fine you're right because you're not building up you're not forming Vapor right which creates pressure in the system and when you get that pressure it just builds up and that puts a lot of stress on your cooling system all the seals gasic hoses it's a lot of stress under high heat now what do you have here this is a refractometer and this measures the water content which is important to to measure once you should do a conversion because well number one is to get all the water out and do a good job in the beginning because you don't want to have to correct it later yeah now when you flush your cooling system you take the hoses off and you suest what put an air hose in the block and just let it run for 10 or 15 minutes until it just blows all the will that get in all the the water out it'll get most of it out but it's important as you said take the hoses off maybe where the thermostat is and blow air through there right different places because you got your heater core in different places where the co will reside right so if you blow air through that and I wouldn't recommend high pressure air but high volume air like a mini like a Makita leaf blower a handheld one is good I don't know if you have one of those I don't have a Makita but I will get an americanmade Toro there's a blower than well uh that helps a lot I save a lot of time that's right and after you blow it out it's important to use a flush but obviously not a water flush okay use a you I mean if I see you coming out coming towards me with that I'm going to run cuz it looks like some sort of proctology but what do you do how does that work you stick that down the you you don't have to you don't do that no you don't tip it okay pretty simple you take a couple of drops and you put it on this slide you cover it up and you look into the light once you calibrate this to measure the water content and you look in the light right and you can see by the scale what the percentage of water is you want it to be close to zero Co but we can go up to 3% you know without any issues but once you start exceeding 3% you starting you start to become a little bit more subjective to those problems we talked about gotcha gotta now a different coolant for a flathead Engine versus a a high performance uh Corvette or something of that nature yeah well the high performance is I wouldn't call it Universal but for all purposes almost more Universal for cars and what you've got is the high performance which could be used for everyday cars um but the kind of cars you've got Jay this power sports formula is more formulated for ATVs snowmobiles uh What's the Difference Engine isn't it yeah but the different types of metal different heat that's generated I think the additives are different from each one this is the heavy duty blend and this is for the heavy duty diesel trucks and again it's a different formulation but when you get to those higher temperatures water turns the vapor now vapor water vapor loses 96% of its heat transfer capabilities so when you effectively lose all your heat transfer capabilities it's like this cliff and once you hit that Cliff that's when you begin to overheat this continues heat transfer capabilities well beyond those high temperatures now I have not used this in any of the high performance cars like the McLaren or even the ZR1 Corvette because I still have the factory cooling I use it primarily for collector cars for cars that sit and anybody that has a collector car knows you've got to run them on a regular basis or else they start to corrode and uh especially the dusenberg was I was just stunned I realized I was really hurt in my car by cuz I'd take it out and a little low and I put a little water in if I got hot I and I realized I was just adding more and more corrosion to it so I flushed all those blocks and it's worked tremendously for me in that capacity I have not used it in any of the high performance cars but in a car that you're going to have the rest of your life 10 years 20 years you put this in you leave it and you walk away it saves your water pump it saves your seals uh all my cars would get that green corrosion around any Place air was escaping and you open the hood people oh nice D hey what's all that green stuff I'm down there with a toothbrush cleaning all the time those problems have all gone away right in fact it if you have a coolant filter and you look at that filter it collects all that green g yeah so clean that out and it's not cheap it's expensive coolant it's $30 to $40 a gallon something like that well it's it's is in the 40 this is low 40s High 40s this is 26 for a half a gallon okay um but you say that and up front it's a little more expensive but in the long run really becomes at expensive Co yeah it cost you money you never have to change it yeah I would go back and watch the other video and look at that uh that water jacket plate that I took off my drenberg cuz I baby my cars I take care of them and yet I was doing more harm from the inside out in the other way so yeah Mike thank you very much thanks appreciate it yeah see you next weekwelcome to the episode of Jay Leno's Garage we're here once again with Mike tville he's uh is it marketing director is that what it is yes for Evans cool now if you've been to this website before you know we've done segments on Evans cool this is a waterless coolant uh what you do is you take the water out of the uh out of the cooling system in your car and you replace it with this waterless coolant and it's especially good for non pressurized systems like older cars anything from 1900 up until the present day I am slowly converting converting all of my cars to this and uh we did a web shoot once before where we uh where we talked about this and how it fights electrolysis and corrosion and it's life of the car coolant you never ever have to replace it I have had uh I've had it in some cars for 15th years my Bugatti has been in there well over 15 years and uh it's as clean as the day I put it in and uh the reason we're doing this update is uh I guess you have some new products on the market is that correct well it's an updated version of our old products yes yeah we have a a heavy duty product uh high performance and a power sports product that we didn't have with different formulations from last year right and this is an American company and the product is made here in America and uh the one thing I you just told me which I think is kind of cool is your biggest Market is China you're selling American Products to China which is nice to see instead of going way and until they copy it and steal it you should be very successful they're trying real hard too yeah so that's what we try to do here we try to promote American companies and americanmade products when we can and uh I think it's important and and that's why he flew out to tell us about this now what I suggest you do is before you watch this video go back and watch the other one and you'll see how corrosion was literally eating the inside of my dusenberg motor the cast iron part not so bad but the aluminum pieces the water jacket covers and all that oh my God they just got literally you could poke your finger through it you don't realize how how corrosion you think cu the water is moving all the time well it can't be that bad water uh although it's the best cooling thing there is it can be uh it can be very corrosive and very bad it comes with its problems yeah yes and everybody over time has just accepted uh those uh problems associated with water the low boiling point corrosion a big problem that's often over looked as electrolysis yeah and that degrades the metal as the coolant becomes more acidic over time it degrades the metal causing problems and usually those problems are from the inside out you don't see them right away yeah I uh when we pulled the uh water jacket Off My dusenberg Block I could put my hand inside and scrape up literally handfuls of aluminum uh corrosion it was it was unbelievable I stunned by that yeah and you don't see it because it's inside and when you see it and you go wow this could have been a catastrophic problem um if if you had allowed it to continue but as Jay said it's the life of the engine so once it's in you don't have to worry about it the engine the metal uh will stay clean um for years and years and years you never have to change this is especially good if you have an older car if you have a collector vehicle that you don't drive very often you put this coolant in and it can sit for 10 or 15 years and it's not going to corrode I think what's even more evident especially out here in Southern California is overheating right where you can just prevent overheating from happening because our the coolant boiling is 375° you won't get there right uh versus a low boiling point of water at 212 an under pressurized system might be might be 240 or so right but you have to 150° separation between the boiling point and the operating temperature of the coolant so you just won't overheat and then this LA traffic yeah I mean that's a nice thing you know I've got a lot of older cars and you're sitting in LA traffic it's 100° out and at 212 okay but then sh now the water is boiling out and overflowing and now you've got less water so the cars continues to get hotter and hotter whereas this it doesn't at 300° you can open the cap and you're fine you're right because you're not building up you're not forming Vapor right which creates pressure in the system and when you get that pressure it just builds up and that puts a lot of stress on your cooling system all the seals gasic hoses it's a lot of stress under high heat now what do you have here this is a refractometer and this measures the water content which is important to to measure once you should do a conversion because well number one is to get all the water out and do a good job in the beginning because you don't want to have to correct it later yeah now when you flush your cooling system you take the hoses off and you suest what put an air hose in the block and just let it run for 10 or 15 minutes until it just blows all the will that get in all the the water out it'll get most of it out but it's important as you said take the hoses off maybe where the thermostat is and blow air through there right different places because you got your heater core in different places where the co will reside right so if you blow air through that and I wouldn't recommend high pressure air but high volume air like a mini like a Makita leaf blower a handheld one is good I don't know if you have one of those I don't have a Makita but I will get an americanmade Toro there's a blower than well uh that helps a lot I save a lot of time that's right and after you blow it out it's important to use a flush but obviously not a water flush okay use a you I mean if I see you coming out coming towards me with that I'm going to run cuz it looks like some sort of proctology but what do you do how does that work you stick that down the you you don't have to you don't do that no you don't tip it okay pretty simple you take a couple of drops and you put it on this slide you cover it up and you look into the light once you calibrate this to measure the water content and you look in the light right and you can see by the scale what the percentage of water is you want it to be close to zero Co but we can go up to 3% you know without any issues but once you start exceeding 3% you starting you start to become a little bit more subjective to those problems we talked about gotcha gotta now a different coolant for a flathead Engine versus a a high performance uh Corvette or something of that nature yeah well the high performance is I wouldn't call it Universal but for all purposes almost more Universal for cars and what you've got is the high performance which could be used for everyday cars um but the kind of cars you've got Jay this power sports formula is more formulated for ATVs snowmobiles uh What's the Difference Engine isn't it yeah but the different types of metal different heat that's generated I think the additives are different from each one this is the heavy duty blend and this is for the heavy duty diesel trucks and again it's a different formulation but when you get to those higher temperatures water turns the vapor now vapor water vapor loses 96% of its heat transfer capabilities so when you effectively lose all your heat transfer capabilities it's like this cliff and once you hit that Cliff that's when you begin to overheat this continues heat transfer capabilities well beyond those high temperatures now I have not used this in any of the high performance cars like the McLaren or even the ZR1 Corvette because I still have the factory cooling I use it primarily for collector cars for cars that sit and anybody that has a collector car knows you've got to run them on a regular basis or else they start to corrode and uh especially the dusenberg was I was just stunned I realized I was really hurt in my car by cuz I'd take it out and a little low and I put a little water in if I got hot I and I realized I was just adding more and more corrosion to it so I flushed all those blocks and it's worked tremendously for me in that capacity I have not used it in any of the high performance cars but in a car that you're going to have the rest of your life 10 years 20 years you put this in you leave it and you walk away it saves your water pump it saves your seals uh all my cars would get that green corrosion around any Place air was escaping and you open the hood people oh nice D hey what's all that green stuff I'm down there with a toothbrush cleaning all the time those problems have all gone away right in fact it if you have a coolant filter and you look at that filter it collects all that green g yeah so clean that out and it's not cheap it's expensive coolant it's $30 to $40 a gallon something like that well it's it's is in the 40 this is low 40s High 40s this is 26 for a half a gallon okay um but you say that and up front it's a little more expensive but in the long run really becomes at expensive Co yeah it cost you money you never have to change it yeah I would go back and watch the other video and look at that uh that water jacket plate that I took off my drenberg cuz I baby my cars I take care of them and yet I was doing more harm from the inside out in the other way so yeah Mike thank you very much thanks appreciate it yeah see you next week\n"