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radiator flush on 3406

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ricedaddy

03-23-2006 18:35:33




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Do'es anyone have a preference on radiator flush and do they work? This is a 3406 cat, need a couple days before I can shut down to pull the radiator!
thanks in advance
Ron




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thinking to complicated

03-24-2006 07:01:01




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 Re: radiator flush on 3406 in reply to ricedaddy, 03-23-2006 18:35:33  
use just regular old Cascade liquid detergent like you were washin the dishes man...



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the tractor vet

03-24-2006 06:34:33




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 Re: radiator flush on 3406 in reply to ricedaddy, 03-23-2006 18:35:33  
A couple years back while driven big truck with a 3406 -550 cat it started to get hot as the water filer that had been on it had built up a coating on the inside of the radatior and the boss got a couple bottels of some stuff and for the life of me i do not remember just what it was but you drain out the antifreeze pull the stats out and fulush with water then fill with water and addone of these bottels and run the engine with the rad. covered and get the engine temp up to 190-200 degrees and run it for a half hour then drain and re do it again you would not beleive all the junk that came out then you flush and add this other bottel to nuteralize it but the stats back in and then for sleeve portectshion youuse this new stuff that does not build up on the inside like the old stuff did here again i do not remember the name of it . but it did the job and it did not overheat again . And saved pullen the rad.

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NC Wayne

03-23-2006 19:25:21




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 Re: radiator flush on 3406 in reply to ricedaddy, 03-23-2006 18:35:33  
Cummins is supposed to have one of the better flushes on the market. The shop forman at our local Komatsu dealership tell me this after the tansmission oil cooler on my service truck developed a leak and filled the cooling system with transmission fluid. It took a couple of fills and flushes but it got all the oil out. He said he had used it numerous times over the years, always with excellent results in removing scale, as well as oil fluids like I encountered.

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old

03-23-2006 19:15:11




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 Re: radiator flush on 3406 in reply to ricedaddy, 03-23-2006 18:35:33  
I have tried almost all brands of flush and none have ever worked as well as good old vinagar plus its cheaper to use the vinagar. Just drian the system, fill with vinagar and run it for a few hours, drain that when cool and back flush with a garden hose. I like to back flush for at least an hour or more



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johndeerejon

03-23-2006 19:04:56




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 Re: radiator flush on 3406 in reply to ricedaddy, 03-23-2006 18:35:33  
I have always used Wynn's flush. That stuff is magic in a bottle!



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