WaterWetter® ??

[Slim]

Im curious to stay learn better wasy to keep the engine temperature down in the FSJ

has anyone used WaterWetter in thier rig ?

how did they find it ?

it says to either run with anti-freeze or for better to run just it and water....

www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp?subCategoryID=4

any good or bad input would be helpful ,,,

Thanks
Slim

[chet]

we used waterwetter in the demo cars. it seemd to work I had a car that ran 220 all the time and putting it in with straight water kept it to around 200. Not sure how it would work with antifreeze

[Slim]

I heard its like $15 a bottle ,,, I think if it knocks the temp down like 10-15 deg ,,,its very much money well spent,,

I just put a new rad in the rig ,,so I didnt want to start dumpin in additives and plug anything up....

[alstick]

I ran it in my CJ witht he 401 and plan to run it again with the new 545 I am building. It seems to work pretty good so I feel it is a good 15.00 investment. I actually carry a spare in case I have to drain my water system and re fill it.
Al

[Slim]

real good idea AL to carry another , in the rig ,,thanks man ,..

[fsjeep]

ran it in my jeep for a little bit, didnt make a difference in my situation due to bad gearing....may work for you but I doubt it, your in the same situation as I was in Slim. New coolant system parts but stock gearing and large tires will work the jeep hard. I would try it out anyways.

[Growly]

Used it in the Jimmy,seemed to work good.Ran it with antifreeze too.

[Slim]

yah no harm in tryin ,,..

I was thinkin ,,since the Jeep is runnin at like 195-200 deg normal ..and if this lowers it say 10 degree ..I will need to put in a lower themostat .... something like a 165 ? otherwise the engine might want to run at like 180-185 but the 195 stat in it will keep it closed ..... just thinkin out loud here ... does that make sense tho?

[Growly]

I ran a 195 t-stat and the temp never rose above that.

[chet]

that makes sense to me.

[Slim]

growly said:

I ran a 195 t-stat and the temp never rose above that.

the old truck an Auto or Std?

if auto ,,what did u do to help keep the trans cooler ,,,on hills and long climbs ?

[fsjeep]

slim forgot to mention that his trans has boiled over a couple of times on him, once on a short highway drive, and another time climbing kapoor hill. What sort of mods can a person do to a TH400 to accomodate larger tires and such? I know the obvious is re-gearing, but what about torque converters and such? He now has a remote trans cooler in the rear with an electric fan.

I had the identical setup and ran about as hot as his, trans got smoking hot and heated the motor up too quickly making it painfully slow to cool down. I swapped over to a manual trans and just that alone my motor now runs about 35 degrees cooler under hard load on a hot summer day.

[Growly]

slim said:

growly said:

I ran a 195 t-stat and the temp never rose above that.

the old truck an Auto or Std?

if auto ,,what did u do to help keep the trans cooler ,,,on hills and long climbs ?

standard.