Re: [Chrysler300] Freeze Plugs?

[Kurt Greske <kurt_greske@xxxx>]

Hi Philippe,

If you have a car with a proper radiator ( like our old Chryslers ;o),
you're actually better off with water and anti-rust in the summer than with
water and ethylene glycol. That's because water has twice the specific heat
capacity of ethylene glycol. If you've got one of these new cars with a toy
radiator, then you have to use the water-antifreeze mixture because the
coolant temperature has to be higher than water is reliable at to dissipate
the heat in the cheapie radiator. ( Fortunately I don't own any cars newer
than my 300G! And all the rest are old Chrysler products too! ;o) Also a
eutectic mixture of water and ethylene glycol actually has a LOWER freezing
temperature than straight ethylene glycol. It's about fifty-fifty but I
don't remember the exact ratio right now because it never gets that cold
here and I only use 25 percent in the winter here. The Prestone jugs used
to say what the proper mixture is but then they discovered that they sell
more antifreeze if they don't!

As for your freezing experience, you were just lucky that the
temperature wasn't cold enough to continue freezing the water before it
warmed up for the day again!

BELIEVE ME, they are EXPANSION core plugs!!

Kurt 

Kurt Greske ( kurt_greske@xxxx )