I have seen diesel heads with severe erosion in the water passages but I
thought it was from not using demineralized water with the antoifreeze mix.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Zepeda" <alex.zepeda@gmail.com>
To: <peugeot-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Peugeot-L] Re: Peugeot Special Diesel Antifreeze
> On 11/4/05, TDPUG83@aol.com <TDPUG83@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Peugeot antifreeze for diesel engines is formulated so that if it
>> gets into the oil it will not disolve the babbit it the bearings and
>> bronze
>> in the guides. This was a much bigger problem when the diesels were a
>> wet sleeve engine
>
> Oh wow. Do you have any details on how they accomplished this?
>
> There are plenty of big, wet sleeved, diesel engines out there now (in
> fact the Cummins motor in the Dodge Ram stands out because it is not
> wet sleeved). To the best of my knowledge the only issue was with
> cavitation, and not the bearings.
>
> I'd love to read up more on this, especially in light of my possibly
> blown head gasket :-D
>
> --
> alex
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