Is this a "cool"-ant idea?!?!

Does coolant that goes through the radiator and the engine cycle through the engine reservoir at all?

I want to use a turkey baster and drain the coolant reservoir, fill the reservoir with fresh coolant, drive normally, then repeat process several times over the course of a short period of time, say a week or two. Theoretically upping the concentration of new coolant every time.

(Concentration of new coolant volume in overall coolant volume obviously parabolically asymptoting towards 1 as swap cycles goes towards infinity)

Would this work?

 

The reservoir acts as a place for the hot coolant to expand into and pull from when there is a vacuum when it cools down. The level only decrease when the water evaporates or overflows. It would be a very slow process for starters. Second, it will not remove any debris that might be in the hoses or block. Only a flush will do that.

 

Good point! I never really understood that there were other factors other than just simply changing fluid. I may just do my method to restore the fluid to factory color, for any future resale or trade-in purposes.

 

Do it correctly. Its still going to take forever if you are just trying to "change the color" and it's dirty now. For a trade in, a dealership doesn't care what the coolant looks like. They'll change it anyways as part of their process before they resell it.

 

As far as debris goes there are coolant filtration systems available for diesels. It's basically an aluminum block that a screw on filter goes on. The incoming fluid comes from the heater core hose and outbound dumps back into the reservoir hose. I had one on my ford and it worked well. I haven't seen this kit for many vehicles but if someone had the resources to make an adapter bracket, which just bolted to the radiator support, I don't see a reason why you couldn't do the same on any given vehicle

 

This is the specific kit I used for filtration

 

Hmm. Is coolant filteration a bigger problem for diesels? You have a Duramax or something?

 

One bit of advice...

After you use your turkey baster on your truck...









Don't use it to baste a turkey...








Or use it to baste any relatives...




even if happens to be your "cool"-aunt.

 

When the coolant in the engine and radiator heats up, it expands, and maybe a 1/2 cup or so goes into the reservoir. When it all cools down, that 1/2 cup gets sucked back into the radiator. It would take a LONG time to change the coolant a 1/2 cup at a time.

Just drain it all and refill it, it's not that hard to do.

 

Most any big rig has them from the factory. I had a power stroke. I know it worked though because after a while you could tell the filter was stopped up because it would be cold to the touch

 

Diesels have a cavitation issue during ignition that eats away the cylinder liners, the filter collects the material from this when SCA's get low.

 

Wow. I wonder what percentage of turkey basters are actually used on turkeys haha. I've never seen one actually used on a turkey. But then again, I don't cook much.

 

I take the bottle off during a coolant swap. Put a few handfuls of pebbles in there, some hot water and shake/break all the scum loose from the walls of the bottle. Then rinse clean.