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<blockquote data-quote="SlowSVT" data-source="post: 14773860" data-attributes="member: 20202"><p>Sid</p><p></p><p>Diesel engines don't like high silicate anti-freeze and have had lots of problems as you pointed out (something about the shockwave that propagates thru the water jacket of a diesel that helps form the solids). The silicate is for corrosion protection of the aluminum which is important as well. I haven't heard too many mod motors having problems with sludge build-up in the cooling system I don't think gasoline engines have as much of an issue here. Replacing the coolant periodically would address this. </p><p></p><p>All the various anti-freeze types have "good & bad" aspects with trade-offs no matter which one you use. After hearing: "don't use green anti-freeze" and hearing: "don't use Prestone" or "don't use gold" then looking into the merits only made my head spin even more. Having said that I've decided the engineers at Ford know a lot more about what anti-freeze to use in my engine than I do so I follow their recommendation and have one less thing to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SlowSVT, post: 14773860, member: 20202"] Sid Diesel engines don't like high silicate anti-freeze and have had lots of problems as you pointed out (something about the shockwave that propagates thru the water jacket of a diesel that helps form the solids). The silicate is for corrosion protection of the aluminum which is important as well. I haven't heard too many mod motors having problems with sludge build-up in the cooling system I don't think gasoline engines have as much of an issue here. Replacing the coolant periodically would address this. All the various anti-freeze types have "good & bad" aspects with trade-offs no matter which one you use. After hearing: "don't use green anti-freeze" and hearing: "don't use Prestone" or "don't use gold" then looking into the merits only made my head spin even more. Having said that I've decided the engineers at Ford know a lot more about what anti-freeze to use in my engine than I do so I follow their recommendation and have one less thing to think about. [/QUOTE]
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