When to add Water Wetter?

[Edmond]

Should I do it after the motor has cooled overnight?

Should I do it during the day?

All I have to do is use a baster and remove enough coolant from the radiator to put the Water Wetter in right?

How long will it take for the Water Wetter to work it's way through the system so I start seeing results on the temperature?

 

[Tuna]

Whenever you want.

Put it in anytime. The benefits should start appearing that same day, if not sooner.

 

[Ken]

Ed, where's the radiator cap on an '88? :confused

If yours is the model where they have the reservoir that sits up higher than the top of the radiator (or nearly so), you should not have too much of a problem emptying the WaterWetter® into the radiator. If it is the same as my '87, then you have to either get the front of the car high enough to allow some room in the top of the tank after you drain some coolant, or you do as I did and simply leave the petcock open slightly and draining while you pour in the WaterWetter®. You have to be fairly quick when you do this or you'll simply pour the WaterWetter® straight through the radiator and out the bottom.

From Redline Oil:

Add directly through the cooling system fill cap into the radiator or into the overflow tank. Do not open a cooling system while hot. For best protection for aluminum, replenish or replace every 15,000 miles. The anti-scaling ingredients in Red Line WaterWetter® allow its use with ordinary tap water. However, using with distilled or deionized water will accomplish some scale removal in the cylinder head area. For maximum temperature reductions use the most water and the least antifreeze possible to prevent freezing in your climate. Even in summertime the use of air-conditioning can blow freezing air through the heater and cause freezing of the heater core unless approximately 20% antifreeze is used.

 

[vader86]

whenever you want

 

[Edmond]

Ken,

My radiator cover is on the top of the passenger side, just above the overfill tank. I was afraid that if I put the Water Wetter into the radiator while it was hot, I'd just end up forcing all the Water Wetter into the overfill tank instead of circulating the Water Wetter throughout the whole radiator, block, etc...

So I'll just use the baster to pull out the amount that I would need to make room for the bottle of Water Wetter and I should see the coolant temperature cooler almost immediately?

 

[Ken]

... I'll just use the baster

You evidentlly haven't seen, who was it - BigRed?, that already posted on this subject.

The baster thing is hard to do becase the level keeps coming back up in the radiator, preventing you from emptying the contents of the bottle into the radiator. That's why I suggested lifting the front of the car up on ramps or something - the level won't rise on ya..

We were wrong though, in telling whoever it was that it was incorrect to add it to the reservoir, according to Redline's instructions. In your case, with the reservoir up above the radiator tank top level, it would be ok to dump it there, though I'd still recommend dumping it straight into the radiator as opposed to the reservoir, but that's just me I guess. :L

_ken

 

[Edmond]

Sorry Ken, I must've mistyped somewhere. My reservoir is below the radiator, just off to the side. But I'll drive her up on the Rhino ramps and then baster the coolant out. I'm going to add the Water Wetter directly to the radiator. I'm just afraid that adding it to the reservoir won't do me any good; it'll take too long to circulate.