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Coolant

• The Heat Is On

  Water diverted from the engine cooling system is routed to a small remote mounted radiator. One coolant hose is plumbed through the water pump and the other is plumbed to the intake manifold or cylind... Read More

• Mechanical Wind

  While electric fans are becoming more and more common (here, an electric motor simply turns the fan on or off, depending upon a pre-determined temperature), many vehicles on the road today still rely ... Read More

• Custom Cooling

  Hot rods, racecars and customized vehicles frequently require extended hose runs to hook the cooling system components together. Often the engine is set farther back, well away from the radiator, or... Read More

• Aluminum Paneling

  Aluminum paneling is a great way to dress up the underside of your vehicle's hood and fenders. It also looks good in the trunk or on the firewall. It can be polished for a bright shine, or rubbed... Read More

• Radiator Caps Resto

  One of the earliest pioneers of engine cooling was Carl Benz who, in the mid-1880s, devised what is called the Thermo-Siphoning system of cooling. No water pump was used, as the system utilized the... Read More

• The Importance of Coolant

  Whether you call it engine coolant or antifreeze, the fluid in your radiator multi-tasks, circulating throughout your engine block and keeping the works purring like a... Read More

• Radiator and Heater Hose Replacement

  Unless you're driving an old rear-wheel-drive Volkswagen Beetle or lucky enough to be carving up the pavement in a pre-'98 Porsche 911, the engine underneath the hood of your car keeps from... Read More

• Radiator and Cooling System Care

  In the same way one's arteries will clog up with the consumption of too many double bacon cheeseburgers and chocolate shakes, the passages in your vehicle's cooling system can get clogged due to... Read More

• Radiator Repair

  Engine coolant takes away the heat produced by internal combustion. The radiator channels the heat away from the coolant in order to keep the metal parts that make up the engine from turning into a... Read More

• Water Pump Basics

  Think of the water pump as the heart of your vehicle cooling system. Its job is to continuously circulate engine coolant through the cooling system-from the radiator to the engine and then back... Read More

• Keep Your Eye on the Thermostat

  The sudden failure of an inexpensive part can leave you and your vehicle stranded by the side of the road. This is especially true of the cooling system thermostat. The thermostat resides in between... Read More

• Keeping Your Cool-ant

  Draining and filling your cooling system used to be a whole lot simpler. Back in the early days of ethylene glycol coolant/antifreeze, all you had to do was reach for the drain petcock at the bottom... Read More

• The Cooling System

  When you consider that the typical six-cylinder engine has something in the neighborhood of 6,000 fiery explosions inside it every minute when operating at typical cruising speed, it's a wonder... Read More

• Water Pump Replacement

  You don't have to be a Brainiac to realize that a properly operating water pump is key to your engine's survival. Shaft leaks or a wobbly, loose and/or noisy hub indicate that a replacement is... Read More