Water Wetter

[Alex13188]

Its not acctually water its a coolant additive, the company says you can add it to anything but i figured i would check here first.

[PARAGON]

Originally Posted by Alex13188

Its not acctually water its a coolant additive, the company says you can add it to anything but i figured i would check here first.

I realize that, but whatever is in there now, supposedly doesn't like water and if something doesn't like water, there's a good chance it won't like something benign to water.

But, I bet you can google the stuff and find out if it is compatible.

[PARAGON]

did a quick search and it has it's naysayers but I read nothing that said it couldn't be mixed.

Said to just pour it into the reservoir

[usetosellhummer]

I think Gm lost a lawsuit on the dexcool. But yes should check before it goes black and stops working

[tomp]

Contact Redline oil company as they are the ones who make it.

[tomp]

http://www.redlineoil.com/products_coolant.asp

[Alex13188]

hey i have read the website im gonna go ahead and try it and i will post the results.

[f5fstop]

You can add water to dex-cool, so long as you keep a 50/50 mixture. Same as any type of anti-freeze, you can purchase the straight dex-cool, then mix with water for a 50/50 mixture. However, they do sell gallons of pre-mixed dex-cool/water.
I tried this stuff in my Vette, and maybe noticed a five degree temp decrease, but nothing I could every verify. Didn't do any controlled tests, just calculated a five degree drop due to normal driving habits and temps.

[Beastmaster]

You will only see a very marginal difference in using a 50/50 DexCool/Water combination and Water Wetter.

In Arizona, I now use a 30/70 DexCool/Water mixture on my wife's H3 with Water Wetter (since I've had the temp issues with it), and I have seen a rough 10 degree difference. This is due to the fact that Water is a far better conductor of heat than coolant.

Of course, I also rarely see anything hit 0 degrees F here in Arizona either, so running a 30/70 mixture works fine.

In my H1, I use Shell Rotella ELC, which is a diesel based DexCool variant. I've seen an actual drop in operating temps doing a 30/70 water/DexCool mixture with the diesel specific Water Wetter.

In the peak of summertime, I would consistently get temps up to 230 degrees F with a 50/50 mix and running 65+MPH. Going to a 30/70 mix with Water Wetter gave me a drop down to 215 at most (normal operating temp is generally 195 to 200 degrees under normal outside temps) running at a consistent speed of 65+MPH.

So it does and will work with Dexcool. You just have to run a different water dilution mix though for optimum results.