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REDLINE Water Wetter: I found brown oily substance in reserve tank.

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Old 11-28-2000, 02:56 AM
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Default REDLINE Water Wetter: I found brown oily substance in reserve tank.

I recently purchased a bottle of Water Wetter from ReDLine and discovered that it reacted with the coolant. It made the liquid solution murky brown and oily. I don't know if anyone else knows about this or not, but Redline Techs said that this is normal and isn't detrimental to any engine parts. Best setup is 20% coolant and 80% water and a bottle of Redline Water Wetter, that is what the Redline tech told me. If anyone else is experiencing this problem please reply.

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Old 11-28-2000, 02:59 AM
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Yup. I've not personally experienced, but heard this a lot. Gave away the bottle I bought w/o usng
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Default Re: REDLINE Water Wetter: I found brown oily substance in reserve tank.

Same here, brown stuff floating on top of coolant tank. Freaked me out, throught it was motor oil! Redline says don't worry about it. Steve
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Default I have not used the RedLine stuff, but have used similar products in other vehicles . . .

It is normal. The stuff you see floating around are all of the contaminants that were adhered to your readiator and possibly clogging different passages. The next time you drain the radiator all of that gunk will flow out so long as you drain and do a proper flushing.
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