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C2FAN
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United States
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Posted - 03/25/2019 :  11:27:32 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Does anyone know of any alternative to blue bird blue color coolant? in the Ford V10.

bwest
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United States
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Posted - 03/26/2019 :  05:29:55 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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Originally posted by C2FAN

Does anyone know of any alternative to blue bird blue color coolant? in the Ford V10.



Interesting, I've never heard of the blue color. Mine is orange.

Bryan
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muddywater
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USA
50 Posts

Posted - 03/26/2019 :  08:50:32 AM  Show Profile  Send muddywater a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Check out Prestone Heavy Duty Antifreeze. It lists it as compliant with TMC RP-329. On the back it lists all the engine manufacture's. It has a purple cap. We have 2 BB that we use this on that was running the "blue" antifreeze.
I long for the day's when we just had antifreeze. 50 years ago all the antifreeze's had different colors and I seem to remember some standard that changed them all to green, except Prestone which was still that weird yellow color.
Hope this helps.
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unclefish
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Posted - 03/27/2019 :  09:55:39 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I would look into fleetcharge, 1 of the members says he was getting 200k on waterpumps, in the cummins . we don't have anyone around here selling it. but the factory crap they are using isn't any good anyways. so probably any good extendlife would be better than the fleetguard brand. I cant send a bus a to cummins for 2 days and pay 2 drivers to bring and pickup. for a 60 dollar pump. Have enough Cummins emissions problem buses there now waiting.
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wwinters
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USA
114 Posts

Posted - 03/27/2019 :  12:47:36 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
There is a blue ethylene glycol that is blue, we use the fleet charge in our propane buses
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bwest
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United States
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Posted - 03/27/2019 :  1:47:53 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My newest propanes (2020 year model) say Dexcool

Bryan
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Mechan1c
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USA
853 Posts

Posted - 03/28/2019 :  09:09:05 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I got 6 V10 gassers in September and they came with Dexcool also. That was a suprise.
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Fastback
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Posted - 03/28/2019 :  09:32:52 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We've been using this in everything we have;

https://www.safety-kleen.com/products-services/products/antifreeze-and-windshield-washer-fluid/antifreeze

Why yes, the ORIGinal CHARGER is a Fastback
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