i've always had rusty water in my engine. every time i flush it through once with endless kettles of water it heats up to temp again the header tank turns that nasty orange and its a ballache to clean it. is there something i can run through it to clean it all out? i want to have antifreese that stays blue for more than 4 minutes

thanks, joe.

 

radiator flush. do you run antifreeze all the time?

 

clear ya rad and heater matrix!

 

i feel ya pain. i tried everything, but still ended up with rusty water. was annoying seeing as i had just bought a new header tank, did a full coolant flush, and it still did nothing and fukt my new header tank within a day.
when changing my engine further down the line, i saw it was the inside water paths in the block that were orange with rust. so couldnt really be helped

 

just smack a hose thru it leave for half hour and it should be better

 

but its when it heats up it just goes rusty again. proper annoying. i run antifreese all the time, but maybe the previous owners didn't!

had a new rad a few months ago. matrix is mint though.

 

Run hot water through it from your tap in the house!

 

Hot water as above.

 

Someone told me years ago to put washing powder in and run it, then flush it out - never tried it, in case he was taking the piss - knowing my luck it'll be like an Ibiza foam party going on!! LOL

 

i thought about doing this, but didn't want to do it for the same reason

 

Go on, try it and tell us how you get on!!

 

pml,let him fuck his car up first then
i think my water is just taking after my car

 

washing powder works for removing oil from the cooling system, not sure on rust, worth a go though

 

washing powder is mint.It has Low foam properties.

 

its low sud as well - it wont foam up excessively as it gets forced aroudn a machine in its day to day life

 

washing powder is good for cleaning the header tank

 

yeah it is, i just didn't know if it would do the same for the inside of my engine, its abit different to sitting it into a bucket of hot water overnight.

i might give it a go then. results in a few days....