Note, do NOT use liquid soap meant for hand washing dishes! Only use soap meant for a dishwashing machine or washing machine because they don't foam. Use something like Dawn and you'll spend the next 2 weeks flushing foam out of your cooling system.
IF for some reason you stupidly put regular SOAP in there - flushing with a DETERGENT (dishwasher detergent or even laundry detergent) would help suppress the bubbles because it has "defoaming" agents in it... AKA surfactants.
More than 30 years ago, Mom put a quart of oil in the Radiator. Two table spoons of Cascade regular dish washing detergent and 10 miles later, worked like a charm!
I also tried the dishwasher tablets and it seemed to work. But after checking the whole engine interior was in the oil film. Also aluminium parts suffered. Pouring the next round of tablets did not change the water colour, but it was not working!!! The motor seemed to heat more and even after some millage it did not cleanse itself. After I used the dedicated cleanser it was totally cleansed! After doing that I also used cleanser to remove calcium and the engine looked perfect inside! Summing up, use dedicated chemistry and do not try to save the money...
My go to since m102-103 MB Head gasket at the right rear of the vehicle. Would vacuum out all hoses for a few minutes during service to other vehicles and return to change from heater core to radiator etc when head off would also suck out the bottom of the block with 3/8 8-9 mm tube and the vacuum cleaner sometimes on rusty coolant I would blow air into the slime at the bottom of block, but always clean the coolant system during a gasket change
That's why I watch. "Crazy". Some of it's humorous, some of it is stupid, and some of it is useful. Even the humor and stupid is useful: You tell yourself you'll never use it, but it does give ideas on what may be possible, leading to other ideas
What would happen if you put kerosene straight into the radiator and let it sit for a few days and then drain it? Then put and engine flush in the cooling system and run the engine and drain? Would it work?
does it remove rust? I flushed the damn engine 20 times this year (no exageration ,even got a new radiator ) ...I still get rust buildup under the radiator cap (which is on the expansion tank) .
@@Adrian-mq5ld not really, it just degreases the inside, from mud and oils, rust is still building up inside, the problem is when the radiator clogs in the lower part and it just bypasses half the cooling inside it. Then you might need a new radiator. We were getting some pretty high temperatures lately and doing this flush didn't fix them, the problem was the pump, once we installed a new pump and cleaned the inside it worked wonders.
Well have 2 trucks that are over half way to 1 million km. I’ve never flushed the cooling system except went I replaced the headgasket on 1 of the trucks. But it wasn’t completely drained. The other hasn’t been touched. Not sure when I even changed the fuel filter. Last…. Both run perfect
I can confirm that I have been using this method for over 40 years. It works great and I've never had any complaints about the results. The difference from you is that I used liquid dishwasher detergent. It's just a little easier to implement in this case. The principle remains the same. The advantage of these detergents is that they are very degreasing and do not foam. Another difference from you, I was going to take the car for a quick spin by opening the heating valve (if it is on the water circuit). This allowed the engine to be run at a higher rpm without making it scream around the workshop. And, finally, I never let this alkaline mixture stay in the circuit so as not to give it time to alter the aluminum parts. I take advantage of this message to send you my best wishes for 2024. :-)
Just be careful not to leave it too long. Modern dishwasher detergent attacks aluminum parts. We used to be able to wash aluminum pizza pans in the dishwasher, but not for about 15 years now. I think it happened when they reformulated the soap to remove phosphates.
Good chance of it. I was a dishwasher at a restaurant about half a century ago. The head cook insisted chili should have a slightly burnt taste, and yes, he made a great chili. But I would get that stock pot as soon as possible, fill with hot water deep enough to cover the scorch, then add a little phosphoric acid. In a while the scorch would rinse out leaving very bright aluminum behind. Then run it through the dishwasher.
It would be a nightmare to hear that man yelling non-stop about dishwashing tabs. That would be torture. The guy cuts everything out if there is no talk for more than ½ second.
His experiments are really good but sometimes i also mute the video or put it on very low volume to still get enough information. Otherwise subtitles help lol
I remember about 30 years ago working on an earthwork job, and a CAT 815 (brand-new machine, think it was the 815C version) soil compactor kept turning up with oil in the coolant before morning start-up. The machine was too big to transport to the shop and was under warranty, so the CAT dealer sent service techs to work on it. The first step was to pour two boxes of Calgonite dishwasher powder into the radiator, change the oil, and run the engine until warmed up, then drained and flushed the cooling system. After about three service calls they diagnosed a cracked block.
Had a 206 that flushed and flushed after previous owners mixed antifreeze - I think. Tried this after all system was full of emulsion, nothing shifted it. One go with dishwasher tab cured it but I flushed it twice after too. 20 yr old car as clean as whistle
Too funny you used the bars with pre-wash, main wash & included glas cleaner (red ball). I believe a simple dish washer powder would have done the same. Great test! I am thinking to apply this also. Simple and actually highly effective.
My understanding is that there's not actually a difference in the colored segments of the dishwasher tabs. When they enter the dishwasher, it all breaks down and enters the wash at the same time. It's basically all the exact same chemicals just segmented and dyed so it looks fancier and they can charge more.
@@KeterMalkuthThe mostly three colours in tablet are pre-wash, main-wash & glas cleaner. Chemicals delay that the tablets get liquid at the same time. This delay time is based for dish washers and their programms. Using simple dish washer powder seems much quicker to create a solvent and glass cleaner is likely overkill. Price is loads lower but for a single car...😂
@@KeterMalkuth " It's basically all the exact same chemicals just segmented and dyed so it looks fancier and they can charge more." Bingo Even if they did use different chemicals, they all dissolve into the main wash so it doesn't do what they claim.
Many years ago I took to using liquid Wisk (now Persil) laundry detergent to clean cooling systems, especially Chrysler cooling systems that were full of rust. It worked better than commercial flushes and didn't cause pin hole leaks in the radiator. Even the store brand of Wisk worked equally well.
This stuff works to remove oil but it’s best to just use a dedicated coolant system flush because the stuff in these tablets reacts with aluminum and damages it over time. It will also make the aluminum develop a black oxide layer as well.
Hmm, that's weird, because aluminum creates a white powder when it oxidizes. So, the black layer shouldn't be. But, in any case, since they only warm up the engine and then flush it again and repeat this 3 times, the "over time" condition for any damage, is not fulfilled.
Except the dedicated coolant flushes are not designed to clean up oil, so they would not be effective for this use case. They are acidic to remove mineral deposits which accumulate due to the temperature cycles.
We used it also for sticky Thermostates if the Cabin stays Cold in Wintertime.. It unstuck almost immediately at latest in a Few Hours. 2 Tabs in the Cooler, run it for 2-3 Days and then flush/rinse and refill with fresh Glysantine/Water Mix
You used an emulsifier to make the emulsion stable to be able to flush it out. The thing with washing machine tablets is, the emulsifier used in them does not foam so that it is easier to pump out as the emulsion stays fluid. Great video!
I always flush systems like these with hot DISTILLED (or de-ionized) water mixed with dishwasher soap like Fairy or something that smells like lemon. Hot water opens the thermostat as well. I do a regular run idling , filling up to the top. Then I drive around for half an hour. Usually it only requires a second flush and it's done. Even the worst like diesel engines in tractors are getting cleaned up pretty well.
Those tablets are vicious. I could imagine how corrosive it would be if left in the engine and radiator. A lady friend lost 80% vision in her eye after one of the red centres of a tablet leaked and she must have rubbed her eye and it got in,, she said it was the most painful experience and scary as she couldn't see for a few weeks in that eye but it slightly recovered but will never be the same. Be careful with those things
Sure, don't put your italian aluminium moka pot or espresso stuff in the dishwasher. It destroys them. However those 12 in 1 or all in 1 tabs also have chemicals to prevent strong corrosion. It will say so on the packaging.
Wow, this was useful! I've used my dishwasher to wash my EGR-oily intake manifold and it came out cleaner than I'd ever imagined it would be able to. I'd never have tried this in the radiator.
Another awesome experiment as always. Definitely an idea to consider if I ever have oil in my cooling system. To Vlad and everyone else there, I love y'all's videos. You guys rock.🤘🤘🤘🤘
Hello, I had the same problem on a Patner 200 in DW8, 2 years ago! I thought the head gasket was damaged. and actually no! It was the garage that did the stupid thing! as the apprentice checked and completed the levels he refilled the coolant afterwards, using the same funnel as for the oil! I used degreaser several times with no real results! for ultra strong products! and a friend advised me to do like you. the Féris pastille! well I was surprised by the result too! after three washes (while driving for any time) and rinsing each time. Well, I've never had such a clean cooling circuit! even the scale and sludge are gone! 😊 from a temperature of 90°C in operation (in winter), I went to 80°C (in summer, at 35°c outside). So I can confirm that it works very well.
I've done this to get rid of the oil that gets in the cooling system whenever you take the cylinder head off. It bobs up in the header tank the first time you start the engine up after reassembling everything and you're never quite sure if it's just the stuff that's left-over or if the head-gasket is leaking. You have to remember to flush the soapy water out really well and fill up with anti-freeze or everything aluminium will start corroding.
I have Used powdered laundry detergent as well as powdered dishwashing detergent for many years. I worked at a used car lot for 30 years. I would love to come and work in your shop. You should try turning a lotta into a hovercraft.
Used these a heap of times for general cleaning and removing stubborn grime! Had a bag of these that got wet and all stuck together so didn’t bother to use them in the dishwasher I just broke out a chunk and mixed it with water for part’s cleaning! Also laundry powder works great to remove oily deposits from cooling systems and especially good for back flushing radiator’s at home! There’s better degreaser’s to use at the shop but if you run out there’s alternatives! Oven cleaner is another great degreaser but it’s also caustic! And should be used with caution!
I had 2001 Ford Taurus that was encountering the issue with rust in the coolant, which would build up and cause it to overheat. My dad and I were trying to resolve this, not knowing about the underlying issue and just trying to get the car running for a trip the next day. We flushed the coolant with detergent and assumed it would be fine. The next day, in the middle of the journey to Reno, it began overheating. Being close to a speck on the map town, the only thing that I could do was just put detergent in the coolant system and leave it, hoping the car survived the trip. I had no further problems with overheating and made it home. The car lasted a few more months before the engine died. Later, I learned that this rust in the coolant issue was common, but the car was long-since gone.
If there is excessive rust in the coolant its replacement is long overdue. Over time antifreeze's rust-inhibiting agents are being consumed and then corrosion starts. To get rid of the rust you can drain the system and run it warm with dishwasher and water and then drain it again and fill it with water and citric acid rund warm, repeat the cycle with citric acid until the rust has disappeared. Do a last cycle with just water or add just very little dishwasher powder only to neutralize any remaining acid. After draining that put in new antifreeze and the cooling system is like new.
@@gosponzak3246 ca 10% regular citric acid from any grocery store to water, if the local drinking water is very hard, it is better to use distilled water. For example collected rainwater, water from a dehumidifier or melted water from defrosting a freezer can be a cheap source of distilled water.
My Hyundai Service Center used powdered dishwasher detergent in the cooling system to stop scale issues that kept plugging the heater core on my 2006 Accent after a chemical radiator flush I did a few months prior. It worked great.
fill a cooldrink bottle with water. turn it over quickly so the water can't fall out and stick the hole into the opening of the filled radiator. Let the car idle like this. oil in the radiator will float up in the bottle when it passes the cap hole. That being said, emulsion is a pain. Sometimes it is easier to swap in a new radiator... My 30 year old car has a shiny new one in. It looks so cool when you open the hood. you are right to say it looks like milk, milk is also an emulsion... (fats or oils floating in water as tiny droplets.
old school trick. Works amazing. I just buy the dishwater powder as i find it easier to dissolve but yea, been doing this to clean oil out of coolant systems for years now, sooo cheap!
I used draino or liquid plumber once to clear scale and deposits in heater coil and radiator and it worked pretty well. Can't leave in too long or it will eat the metal I think. Toilet bowl cleaner is also a mild acid. I'd like to try that to clean a cooling system. Then again, maybe vinegar would work too. The dishwasher detergent cleaning was genius though.
Those tabs also work wonders if you have one of those stainless steel coffee pot carafes. Put two in the pot and fill with boiling hot water, let sit at least a half hour before dumping out, quick brush and rinse and give it a run in the dishwasher. It will look like brand new with no crazy chemicals and minimal effort!!
I’ve used Cascade powder dish detergent on multiple engines. Works very well but you still have to do it multiple times and flushing with water between.
This is how problems are solved , by experimenting . you never know till you try something but this seems to work because it does not make a lot of suds and foam. good job guys.
I have used a couple tablespoons of cascade or store brand equivalent dish powder and that always works good toss in 2 or 3 tbsp, drive a little bit and drain and fill drive again 20 min then drain and fill with antifreeze , then it’s nice and clean .. never thought of using a dish tablet for this
Dealt with a Terex excavator where someone had decided to fill the cooling system with hydraulic fluid. Used a mix of trisodium phosphate (TSP) and sodium tetraborate (Borax) to get all the sludge out. Took about two good flushes before it was really clean.
Used this method in strip pits in the 80s...transmission coolers hydraulic cooler ruptures ..resulting in cooling system full of oil . Used calgon dishwasher supplies .
I got the same problem with my mitsubishi..I will try this weekend ..and definitely let you guys know how will go...thanks awesome way to clean my cooling system..
This is great, I've been doing this for years, did it on freightliners then car engines, works amazingly well. I wouldn't use the tablets myself just the regular powder since the tablets have a caking agent in them and some have the film the breaks down goes thru the engine.
Done this with dish washing liquid and flushed it with boiling hot water. Took atleast 8-10 flushes but it worked fine and no foam like some people in the comment section will tell u. Boiling hot water helps to remove the soap and oil and obviously just leave it idle with the heater left on in the car until when you flush its just clear water than run it with distilled water for a good long drive and when you come back flush it again and than fill up with coolant. Also don't mix the dish washing liquid in the bottle you pour boiling hot water into just squeeze some in the reservoir and just run the boiling hot water straight ontop of it.
My awesome Nissan GA16DE, was the same when I got it, just after gasket replacement and sitting for a while, I used degreaser, which was totally fine for the job, but... because it had sat for so long and oil contaminated some rubber hoses, the degreaser disassembled both oil and rubber, anyways just watch for pockets of oil that reside in certain upper places in the cooling system.
Love this channel. I've thought of a few if these things in the past. Brings stuff to life. I think Garage 54 would be cool to work there. Thank you Garage 54 for the great entertainment!
A few race car guys ive talked to use Mean Green floor cleaner. Nonacidic and biodegradable. They use it because normal coolant is illegal at the drag strip, because its technically an oil, so they can only use water. The mean green keeps oils and corrosion in check and flushes it out in 15 to 30 mins of idling. 2 solid flushes with water and a refill with the right coolant and all is well.
I've never thought of this before...I'm going to have to "try this at home"! The thing to be careful of, is that dishwashing detergent is highly caustic, and will attack aluminum parts. If you do this, you want to make sure ALL the detergent is rinsed out, before adding coolant, and calling it "done".
Years ago, my father used laundry detergent to clean emulsion from a cooling system. Actually had the customer drive the car for a week with the detergent in it.
Dishwasher tablets are a good idea for getting oil out without a detergent that will froth and foam. These tablets and dishwasher powder are quite alkaline which breaks grease down same as a hot tank. No good if you have aluminium parts as it will eat them out though, so thermostat housing and alloy heads will disappear.
If you are going to be doing this method i would suggest taking the thermostat out till you are done flushing the system the water will heat up enough to clean the system just by running
While you have the borescope out, drill and tap, make a port on the inlet manifold up far enough you can watch the valve action, could also be done with several other places just to see what it looks like from the fuel and air perspectives. Or you could Mount the scope camera up close to a brake rotor and watch it turn red in real time. I don't know if you could, but it would be worth trying to look inside the distributor cap while the car was cranking or running and watch the Sparks Fly .
I do a wash, then a water flush, then a wash, then a water flush. Works best if the thermostat is temporarily removed. And of course, set the heater to full hot, so the heater circuit is cleaned as well I use regular dish washing liquid. No issue with foam. And its much less corrosive on raw aluminium parts. I leave the detergent circuating for 10-15 minutes. Never needed more than 2 washes & flushes Last time i did this due to in-radiator transmission oi, cooler failure. So i had pink emulsion to clean out
I've used dishwasher tablets to clean air to air on a cat engine, came out like new, never hurt the seals either. Just flush it a few times. Gojoe works good too!!!!
What would happen to a normal system one that had no oil in it but had some calcium build ups in the cooling lines of the radiator. Say we are flushing the old anty freez from the system. To replace with new antifreeze. So let's drain the system. Put dish washing solution with two dissolved tablets in it. Drive it around for an hr. To simulate a wash cycle. Drain it. Rince with hot water. So let the system heat up to operating temperature and cycle the thermostat a few times. Now drain. And add dishwasher cleaning solution to remove calcium deposits to the radiator. Drive it around for a day watching temperature etc. Now drain and rinse are deposits gone cleaned up from radiator tubes and ready to add new antifreeze solution to the radiator for two to five years. Will doing this keep your radiator free of deposits bilding up in the radiator?
Have for many years used dishwasher tablets to clean the system on various vehicles. I always let 1-2 tablets dissolve in warm water before pouring it into the radiator. Then drive the car until it reach temp and then I let it cool and flush the system twice before puttning in water and glycol. When I cdo this I do it without the thermostat
done this a handful of times on lager generators (above 500kw) over the years, it works very well. just remember, what comes out should be disposed of accordingly. the soap causes oil to bind with water, it's nasty.
Also I used soap powder/costic soda, in old Chrysler in New Zealand, and I found it best to leave for a few days after the first initial rinse, letting the substances pennitrate
I have an old dishwasher set up in my utility room just for cleaning engine and gearbox parts, just degrease the parts using something like Gunk before putting them the dishwasher, then put them on a pots and pan cycle and they come out sparkling clean.
did similar to this when a seal on the oil cooler of my car failed. i flushed the engine 4 times with Daz detergent. worked a charm, my mechanic advised it saying when he worked at land rover and vehicles came back with a blown head gasket thats how they would flush them.
If you took your air hose and blew air through the engine you could counter act the steam and be able to get vid before the engine completely cools. It's what I do in the shop. Works great for me. But I'm also working with 3/4 lines @ 150psi and super high flow. Lol.
detergents , surfactants etc WILL break surface tension of emulsions between oil and water. this is why dawn dish soap works for grease. soap allows water to "dissolve" oil.
Thursday night with last cleanup, I broke up 46 tabs (box) and through in top of radiator tank for last resort. It's a 250L radiator system with oil solites on top of radiator tank and blocking the tubes. Leaking oil cooler. We'll... It definitely cleaned out the engine and radiator, but not the oil solites. Late in the night, running the engine with cap off, fresh water flowing in and levels port open for outflow. Using cordless drill and a long cable tie to break up the oil solites to flow out. Otherwise had to open the radiator tank that's going to be a another half day's work.
I used to own a radiator shop and i would use a pressure flush machine that you remove the thermostat and then with water at tap pressure and air from a compressor you shock the system and blast the cooling system clean. I then used laundry powder and ran the engine to warm it up then another flush and then replace the thermostat and fill with 50/50 glycol anti freeze.
@@matthewkinnaird997 perfectly - it’s running really nicely. The kids are learning to drive in it and it’s taking the abuse in its stride lol I did replace all the coolant hoses though: the oil contaminated coolant rotted out the hoses, but I found replacements pretty easily and fairly cheaply 👍
Wow it broke the oil down and allowed it to mix into the water, if you had flushed between the washing machine tablets it would of worked better, but that worked a treat 💯💯💯💯👍👍👊👊
need more detergent.. petrol grease is very dense , much more than anything a dishwasher sees. Id recommend lye, sodium hydroxide.. as soon as it comes in contact with the grease it will form a soap, which will pull more grease out of the coolant.
You'll find that a bottle of diahwasher cleaner (for actually cleaning an empty dishwasher) will work so much better than diahwasher tablets. Have done tgos several times following VW water -cooled oil cooler failures.
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Note, do NOT use liquid soap meant for hand washing dishes! Only use soap meant for a dishwashing machine or washing machine because they don't foam. Use something like Dawn and you'll spend the next 2 weeks flushing foam out of your cooling system.
IF for some reason you stupidly put regular SOAP in there - flushing with a DETERGENT (dishwasher detergent or even laundry detergent) would help suppress the bubbles because it has "defoaming" agents in it... AKA surfactants.
You just saved me 😂
If dish soap is all you have, rinse with a little vinegar.
@@secondarycontainment4727wow so you can fix stupid..... To an extent.
Ya beat me to it. I hope everyone sees your Comment before they make that mistake. 👍
More than 30 years ago, Mom put a quart of oil in the Radiator. Two table spoons of Cascade regular dish washing detergent and 10 miles later, worked like a charm!
Use Cascade in heavy truck cooling system to clean out oil mess.Works great.
I also tried the dishwasher tablets and it seemed to work. But after checking the whole engine interior was in the oil film. Also aluminium parts suffered. Pouring the next round of tablets did not change the water colour, but it was not working!!! The motor seemed to heat more and even after some millage it did not cleanse itself. After I used the dedicated cleanser it was totally cleansed! After doing that I also used cleanser to remove calcium and the engine looked perfect inside!
Summing up, use dedicated chemistry and do not try to save the money...
My go to since m102-103 MB Head gasket at the right rear of the vehicle.
Would vacuum out all hoses for a few minutes during service to other vehicles and return to change from heater core to radiator etc when head off would also suck out the bottom of the block with 3/8 8-9 mm tube and the vacuum cleaner sometimes on rusty coolant I would blow air into the slime at the bottom of block, but always clean the coolant system during a gasket change
What happened on mile 11 😂
You mean it took 10 miles to work or the engine overheated in 10 miles?
The Fact this guy is never running out of crazy ideas is starting to get scary xDD
Love the videos
Welcome to the Internet.. We have comment sections where people post suggestions.
That's why I watch. "Crazy". Some of it's humorous, some of it is stupid, and some of it is useful. Even the humor and stupid is useful: You tell yourself you'll never use it, but it does give ideas on what may be possible, leading to other ideas
🤣🤣🤣how right you are
What would happen if you put kerosene straight into the radiator and let it sit for a few days and then drain it? Then put and engine flush in the cooling system and run the engine and drain? Would it work?
None of the ideas are his that's why . This has been around since 1950s
Have done this every 3 to 4 years on my father's Mercedes Benz 409d van.
It works wonders. It has over 1 million kilometers and still going strong.
does it remove rust? I flushed the damn engine 20 times this year (no exageration ,even got a new radiator ) ...I still get rust buildup under the radiator cap (which is on the expansion tank) .
nice story , thanks for sharing.
@@Adrian-mq5ld not really, it just degreases the inside, from mud and oils, rust is still building up inside, the problem is when the radiator clogs in the lower part and it just bypasses half the cooling inside it. Then you might need a new radiator.
We were getting some pretty high temperatures lately and doing this flush didn't fix them, the problem was the pump, once we installed a new pump and cleaned the inside it worked wonders.
Well have 2 trucks that are over half way to 1 million km. I’ve never flushed the cooling system except went I replaced the headgasket on 1 of the trucks. But it wasn’t completely drained. The other hasn’t been touched. Not sure when I even changed the fuel filter. Last…. Both run perfect
@@Adrian-mq5ld CLR, calcium, lime, rust
I can confirm that I have been using this method for over 40 years. It works great and I've never had any complaints about the results. The difference from you is that I used liquid dishwasher detergent. It's just a little easier to implement in this case. The principle remains the same.
The advantage of these detergents is that they are very degreasing and do not foam.
Another difference from you, I was going to take the car for a quick spin by opening the heating valve (if it is on the water circuit). This allowed the engine to be run at a higher rpm without making it scream around the workshop.
And, finally, I never let this alkaline mixture stay in the circuit so as not to give it time to alter the aluminum parts.
I take advantage of this message to send you my best wishes for 2024. :-)
Just be careful not to leave it too long. Modern dishwasher detergent attacks aluminum parts. We used to be able to wash aluminum pizza pans in the dishwasher, but not for about 15 years now. I think it happened when they reformulated the soap to remove phosphates.
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Good chance of it. I was a dishwasher at a restaurant about half a century ago. The head cook insisted chili should have a slightly burnt taste, and yes, he made a great chili. But I would get that stock pot as soon as possible, fill with hot water deep enough to cover the scorch, then add a little phosphoric acid. In a while the scorch would rinse out leaving very bright aluminum behind. Then run it through the dishwasher.
Lada is shy on Aluminum.
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very true
I can see this joint effort realize - Project Farm "Best dishwasher detergent to flush your car cooling" featuring Garage 54 know-how...
It would be a nightmare to hear that man yelling non-stop about dishwashing tabs.
That would be torture. The guy cuts everything out if there is no talk for more than ½ second.
Can't stand project farm. Lets not
His experiments are really good but sometimes i also mute the video or put it on very low volume to still get enough information. Otherwise subtitles help lol
Took the words from my mouth😅😅
This was a funny, informative, and impressive video.
The results and the dry surfaces inside the rad speak for itself.
I remember about 30 years ago working on an earthwork job, and a CAT 815 (brand-new machine, think it was the 815C version) soil compactor kept turning up with oil in the coolant before morning start-up.
The machine was too big to transport to the shop and was under warranty, so the CAT dealer sent service techs to work on it. The first step was to pour two boxes of Calgonite dishwasher powder into the radiator, change the oil, and run the engine until warmed up, then drained and flushed the cooling system.
After about three service calls they diagnosed a cracked block.
What I did on Perkins Thursday. Commented my story.
Had a 206 that flushed and flushed after previous owners mixed antifreeze - I think. Tried this after all system was full of emulsion, nothing shifted it. One go with dishwasher tab cured it but I flushed it twice after too. 20 yr old car as clean as whistle
That worked very well.
Any soap (especially with anti foaming agents like dishwasher soap) will work great on oil in a hot system.
Too funny you used the bars with pre-wash, main wash & included glas cleaner (red ball). I believe a simple dish washer powder would have done the same. Great test! I am thinking to apply this also. Simple and actually highly effective.
That product is known as , Vanish, smart to use dishwasher tabs, no suds.
My understanding is that there's not actually a difference in the colored segments of the dishwasher tabs. When they enter the dishwasher, it all breaks down and enters the wash at the same time. It's basically all the exact same chemicals just segmented and dyed so it looks fancier and they can charge more.
@@KeterMalkuthThe mostly three colours in tablet are pre-wash, main-wash & glas cleaner. Chemicals delay that the tablets get liquid at the same time. This delay time is based for dish washers and their programms. Using simple dish washer powder seems much quicker to create a solvent and glass cleaner is likely overkill. Price is loads lower but for a single car...😂
@@KeterMalkuth " It's basically all the exact same chemicals just segmented and dyed so it looks fancier and they can charge more." Bingo
Even if they did use different chemicals, they all dissolve into the main wash so it doesn't do what they claim.
Many years ago I took to using liquid Wisk (now Persil) laundry detergent to clean cooling systems, especially Chrysler cooling systems that were full of rust. It worked better than commercial flushes and didn't cause pin hole leaks in the radiator. Even the store brand of Wisk worked equally well.
This stuff works to remove oil but it’s best to just use a dedicated coolant system flush because the stuff in these tablets reacts with aluminum and damages it over time. It will also make the aluminum develop a black oxide layer as well.
Hmm, that's weird, because aluminum creates a white powder when it oxidizes. So, the black layer shouldn't be. But, in any case, since they only warm up the engine and then flush it again and repeat this 3 times, the "over time" condition for any damage, is not fulfilled.
Except the dedicated coolant flushes are not designed to clean up oil, so they would not be effective for this use case. They are acidic to remove mineral deposits which accumulate due to the temperature cycles.
We used it also for sticky Thermostates if the Cabin stays Cold in Wintertime.. It unstuck almost immediately at latest in a Few Hours. 2 Tabs in the Cooler, run it for 2-3 Days and then flush/rinse and refill with fresh Glysantine/Water Mix
You used an emulsifier to make the emulsion stable to be able to flush it out. The thing with washing machine tablets is, the emulsifier used in them does not foam so that it is easier to pump out as the emulsion stays fluid. Great video!
Sir, Your voice over translation is very good, give him a bonus pay 😆
There is no pay in communist Russia, silly goose!
I always flush systems like these with hot DISTILLED (or de-ionized) water mixed with dishwasher soap like Fairy or something that smells like lemon. Hot water opens the thermostat as well. I do a regular run idling , filling up to the top. Then I drive around for half an hour. Usually it only requires a second flush and it's done. Even the worst like diesel engines in tractors are getting cleaned up pretty well.
Wow, that’s a lot easier than putting the whole car in the dishwasher. Maybe I’d still be married if I only watched this earlier!
Those tablets are vicious. I could imagine how corrosive it would be if left in the engine and radiator. A lady friend lost 80% vision in her eye after one of the red centres of a tablet leaked and she must have rubbed her eye and it got in,, she said it was the most painful experience and scary as she couldn't see for a few weeks in that eye but it slightly recovered but will never be the same. Be careful with those things
Sure, don't put your italian aluminium moka pot or espresso stuff in the dishwasher. It destroys them. However those 12 in 1 or all in 1 tabs also have chemicals to prevent strong corrosion. It will say so on the packaging.
Wow, this was useful! I've used my dishwasher to wash my EGR-oily intake manifold and it came out cleaner than I'd ever imagined it would be able to. I'd never have tried this in the radiator.
Another awesome experiment as always. Definitely an idea to consider if I ever have oil in my cooling system. To Vlad and everyone else there, I love y'all's videos. You guys rock.🤘🤘🤘🤘
Did it one time long ago, worked pretty well.
I do it every years since. Cheap, efficient.
Good thing I found this. I have a VW TDI that had an oil cooler fail... This is exactly what I needed to see!
Hello, I had the same problem on a Patner 200 in DW8, 2 years ago! I thought the head gasket was damaged. and actually no! It was the garage that did the stupid thing! as the apprentice checked and completed the levels he refilled the coolant afterwards, using the same funnel as for the oil! I used degreaser several times with no real results! for ultra strong products! and a friend advised me to do like you. the Féris pastille! well I was surprised by the result too! after three washes (while driving for any time) and rinsing each time. Well, I've never had such a clean cooling circuit! even the scale and sludge are gone! 😊 from a temperature of 90°C in operation (in winter), I went to 80°C (in summer, at 35°c outside). So I can confirm that it works very well.
Nice start and i'm sure this will be a great video to watch, keep doing what you're doing. Great content.
I've done this to get rid of the oil that gets in the cooling system whenever you take the cylinder head off. It bobs up in the header tank the first time you start the engine up after reassembling everything and you're never quite sure if it's just the stuff that's left-over or if the head-gasket is leaking. You have to remember to flush the soapy water out really well and fill up with anti-freeze or everything aluminium will start corroding.
Very nice work 👏 Vlad and friends. Great work as always. 😊 some cheap solutions now to share.
I have Used powdered laundry detergent as well as powdered dishwashing detergent for many years. I worked at a used car lot for 30 years. I would love to come and work in your shop. You should try turning a lotta into a hovercraft.
Used these a heap of times for general cleaning and removing stubborn grime! Had a bag of these that got wet and all stuck together so didn’t bother to use them in the dishwasher I just broke out a chunk and mixed it with water for part’s cleaning! Also laundry powder works great to remove oily deposits from cooling systems and especially good for back flushing radiator’s at home! There’s better degreaser’s to use at the shop but if you run out there’s alternatives! Oven cleaner is another great degreaser but it’s also caustic! And should be used with caution!
I had 2001 Ford Taurus that was encountering the issue with rust in the coolant, which would build up and cause it to overheat. My dad and I were trying to resolve this, not knowing about the underlying issue and just trying to get the car running for a trip the next day. We flushed the coolant with detergent and assumed it would be fine. The next day, in the middle of the journey to Reno, it began overheating. Being close to a speck on the map town, the only thing that I could do was just put detergent in the coolant system and leave it, hoping the car survived the trip. I had no further problems with overheating and made it home. The car lasted a few more months before the engine died. Later, I learned that this rust in the coolant issue was common, but the car was long-since gone.
Yes, it was very common. Once it got bad there’s really nothing you can do to stop it.
If there is excessive rust in the coolant its replacement is long overdue. Over time antifreeze's rust-inhibiting agents are being consumed and then corrosion starts. To get rid of the rust you can drain the system and run it warm with dishwasher and water and then drain it again and fill it with water and citric acid rund warm, repeat the cycle with citric acid until the rust has disappeared. Do a last cycle with just water or add just very little dishwasher powder only to neutralize any remaining acid. After draining that put in new antifreeze and the cooling system is like new.
@@AcamperfullWhat should be the ratio of citric acid to 1l or 1gal of water?
Is that regular citric acid from any grocery store?
@@gosponzak3246 ca 10% regular citric acid from any grocery store to water, if the local drinking water is very hard, it is better to use distilled water. For example collected rainwater, water from a dehumidifier or melted water from defrosting a freezer can be a cheap source of distilled water.
My Hyundai Service Center used powdered dishwasher detergent in the cooling system to stop scale issues that kept plugging the heater core on my 2006 Accent after a chemical radiator flush I did a few months prior. It worked great.
fill a cooldrink bottle with water. turn it over quickly so the water can't fall out and stick the hole into the opening of the filled radiator. Let the car idle like this. oil in the radiator will float up in the bottle when it passes the cap hole. That being said, emulsion is a pain. Sometimes it is easier to swap in a new radiator... My 30 year old car has a shiny new one in. It looks so cool when you open the hood. you are right to say it looks like milk, milk is also an emulsion... (fats or oils floating in water as tiny droplets.
old school trick. Works amazing. I just buy the dishwater powder as i find it easier to dissolve but yea, been doing this to clean oil out of coolant systems for years now, sooo cheap!
Try PBW. It is used for cleaning in beer brewing.
Hello, what is PBW? And what is it mainly used for?
I used draino or liquid plumber once to clear scale and deposits in heater coil and radiator and it worked pretty well. Can't leave in too long or it will eat the metal I think. Toilet bowl cleaner is also a mild acid. I'd like to try that to clean a cooling system. Then again, maybe vinegar would work too. The dishwasher detergent cleaning was genius though.
Oh my goodness I love that light bulb scene over your head That's a good one man
Those tabs also work wonders if you have one of those stainless steel coffee pot carafes. Put two in the pot and fill with boiling hot water, let sit at least a half hour before dumping out, quick brush and rinse and give it a run in the dishwasher. It will look like brand new with no crazy chemicals and minimal effort!!
I’ve used Cascade powder dish detergent on multiple engines. Works very well but you still have to do it multiple times and flushing with water between.
great idea, and easy to do by yourself at home. it also save's a big bill from the garage for cleaning the system.
Did this 10 years ago after making the mistake of mixing different coolant types.
Works wonders.
Also cleans up old dirty corroded systems.
This is how problems are solved , by experimenting . you never know till you try something but this seems to work because it does not make a lot of suds and foam. good job guys.
I have used a couple tablespoons of cascade or store brand equivalent dish powder and that always works good toss in 2 or 3 tbsp, drive a little bit and drain and fill drive again 20 min then drain and fill with antifreeze , then it’s nice and clean .. never thought of using a dish tablet for this
Dealt with a Terex excavator where someone had decided to fill the cooling system with hydraulic fluid. Used a mix of trisodium phosphate (TSP) and sodium tetraborate (Borax) to get all the sludge out. Took about two good flushes before it was really clean.
Used this method in strip pits in the 80s...transmission coolers hydraulic cooler ruptures ..resulting in cooling system full of oil .
Used calgon dishwasher supplies .
Have done this to my 689K toyota carina e with glogged heater core. Worked fine!
I got the same problem with my mitsubishi..I will try this weekend ..and definitely let you guys know how will go...thanks awesome way to clean my cooling system..
Your comment is one month old already. I hope you didn’t fly into the next tree after trying this.
I tried it in a past, it did much be better job than professional cleaning agent for me.
This is great, I've been doing this for years, did it on freightliners then car engines, works amazingly well. I wouldn't use the tablets myself just the regular powder since the tablets have a caking agent in them and some have the film the breaks down goes thru the engine.
I am glad you are able to do this even tho it is probably -90 degrees outside.
Done this with dish washing liquid and flushed it with boiling hot water. Took atleast 8-10 flushes but it worked fine and no foam like some people in the comment section will tell u. Boiling hot water helps to remove the soap and oil and obviously just leave it idle with the heater left on in the car until when you flush its just clear water than run it with distilled water for a good long drive and when you come back flush it again and than fill up with coolant.
Also don't mix the dish washing liquid in the bottle you pour boiling hot water into just squeeze some in the reservoir and just run the boiling hot water straight ontop of it.
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My awesome Nissan GA16DE, was the same when I got it, just after gasket replacement and sitting for a while, I used degreaser, which was totally fine for the job, but... because it had sat for so long and oil contaminated some rubber hoses, the degreaser disassembled both oil and rubber, anyways just watch for pockets of oil that reside in certain upper places in the cooling system.
Love this channel. I've thought of a few if these things in the past. Brings stuff to life. I think Garage 54 would be cool to work there. Thank you Garage 54 for the great entertainment!
A few race car guys ive talked to use Mean Green floor cleaner. Nonacidic and biodegradable. They use it because normal coolant is illegal at the drag strip, because its technically an oil, so they can only use water. The mean green keeps oils and corrosion in check and flushes it out in 15 to 30 mins of idling. 2 solid flushes with water and a refill with the right coolant and all is well.
I've never thought of this before...I'm going to have to "try this at home"! The thing to be careful of, is that dishwashing detergent is highly caustic, and will attack aluminum parts. If you do this, you want to make sure ALL the detergent is rinsed out, before adding coolant, and calling it "done".
Just use automotive coolant flush
I have actually done this many times but using regular dishwasher liquid soap. Works great when I would rebuild a failed head gasket car.
Years ago, my father used laundry detergent to clean emulsion from a cooling system. Actually had the customer drive the car for a week with the detergent in it.
Lol The creativity is getting better and better
inline transmission filter hooked to the heater hose inlet works great, old school trick from county fleet maintenance pickups
Shout out to the translater for making us enjoy this for years and years :D
Dishwasher tablets are a good idea for getting oil out without a detergent that will froth and foam. These tablets and dishwasher powder are quite alkaline which breaks grease down same as a hot tank. No good if you have aluminium parts as it will eat them out though, so thermostat housing and alloy heads will disappear.
Love the idea, and the intro showing how you got the idea!
yes it will work, the powder dishwashing detergent for dishwashers also work well been doing it for years
If you are going to be doing this method i would suggest taking the thermostat out till you are done flushing the system the water will heat up enough to clean the system just by running
While you have the borescope out, drill and tap, make a port on the inlet manifold up far enough you can watch the valve action, could also be done with several other places just to see what it looks like from the fuel and air perspectives. Or you could Mount the scope camera up close to a brake rotor and watch it turn red in real time. I don't know if you could, but it would be worth trying to look inside the distributor cap while the car was cranking or running and watch the Sparks Fly .
But why you already know how it functions
I do a wash, then a water flush, then a wash, then a water flush. Works best if the thermostat is temporarily removed. And of course, set the heater to full hot, so the heater circuit is cleaned as well
I use regular dish washing liquid. No issue with foam. And its much less corrosive on raw aluminium parts. I leave the detergent circuating for 10-15 minutes. Never needed more than 2 washes & flushes
Last time i did this due to in-radiator transmission oi, cooler failure. So i had pink emulsion to clean out
I've used dishwasher tablets to clean air to air on a cat engine, came out like new, never hurt the seals either. Just flush it a few times.
Gojoe works good too!!!!
as stuntman might say: fabuloso in da motor! 😆
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What would happen to a normal system one that had no oil in it but had some calcium build ups in the cooling lines of the radiator. Say we are flushing the old anty freez from the system. To replace with new antifreeze. So let's drain the system. Put dish washing solution with two dissolved tablets in it. Drive it around for an hr. To simulate a wash cycle. Drain it. Rince with hot water. So let the system heat up to operating temperature and cycle the thermostat a few times. Now drain. And add dishwasher cleaning solution to remove calcium deposits to the radiator. Drive it around for a day watching temperature etc. Now drain and rinse are deposits gone cleaned up from radiator tubes and ready to add new antifreeze solution to the radiator for two to five years. Will doing this keep your radiator free of deposits bilding up in the radiator?
Ive used CLR befor but not dishwasher soap. Kinda cool that this worked.
Have for many years used dishwasher tablets to clean the system on various vehicles. I always let 1-2 tablets dissolve in warm water before pouring it into the radiator. Then drive the car until it reach temp and then I let it cool and flush the system twice before puttning in water and glycol.
When I cdo this I do it without the thermostat
For this use the dishwasher tabs better have Benzotriazol to protect for aluminium and copper corrosion.
I did exactly this with my BMW E34 525tds to clean the cooling system and it worked really good.
Well, I see you have just stumbled on a non toxic engine flush ... A 107% success ! :)
done this a handful of times on lager generators (above 500kw) over the years, it works very well.
just remember, what comes out should be disposed of accordingly. the soap causes oil to bind with water, it's nasty.
Also I used soap powder/costic soda, in old Chrysler in New Zealand, and I found it best to leave for a few days after the first initial rinse, letting the substances pennitrate
Hence the expression "squeaky clean".
If it works, it works and in the past I have used dish soap like fairy liquid, it does a good job.
I have an old dishwasher set up in my utility room just for cleaning engine and gearbox parts, just degrease the parts using something like Gunk before putting them the dishwasher, then put them on a pots and pan cycle and they come out sparkling clean.
I have water mixed with my oil, I’m going to pop a few washing tablets down the oil filler cap 🫣
did similar to this when a seal on the oil cooler of my car failed. i flushed the engine 4 times with Daz detergent. worked a charm, my mechanic advised it saying when he worked at land rover and vehicles came back with a blown head gasket thats how they would flush them.
If you took your air hose and blew air through the engine you could counter act the steam and be able to get vid before the engine completely cools. It's what I do in the shop. Works great for me. But I'm also working with 3/4 lines @ 150psi and super high flow. Lol.
Good way to clean the cooling system.
We usually use liquid dish detergent in the USA. Works great for us also.
Oil in cooling system is good for the waterpump
detergents , surfactants etc WILL break surface tension of emulsions between oil and water. this is why dawn dish soap works for grease. soap allows water to "dissolve" oil.
ive used purple power as engine coolant to clean exactly this. It worked amazing.
Purple power damages aluminum so idk how great of an idea that is.
Thursday night with last cleanup, I broke up 46 tabs (box) and through in top of radiator tank for last resort. It's a 250L radiator system with oil solites on top of radiator tank and blocking the tubes. Leaking oil cooler. We'll... It definitely cleaned out the engine and radiator, but not the oil solites. Late in the night, running the engine with cap off, fresh water flowing in and levels port open for outflow. Using cordless drill and a long cable tie to break up the oil solites to flow out. Otherwise had to open the radiator tank that's going to be a another half day's work.
I used to own a radiator shop and i would use a pressure flush machine that you remove the thermostat and then with water at tap pressure and air from a compressor you shock the system and blast the cooling system clean. I then used laundry powder and ran the engine to warm it up then another flush and then replace the thermostat and fill with 50/50 glycol anti freeze.
This works well: I did this a couple of years ago on an MG ZR - took a couple of flushes, but clean as a whistle now 👍
How's your mg now as gonna do my mgf mk1
@@matthewkinnaird997 perfectly - it’s running really nicely. The kids are learning to drive in it and it’s taking the abuse in its stride lol
I did replace all the coolant hoses though: the oil contaminated coolant rotted out the hoses, but I found replacements pretty easily and fairly cheaply 👍
This was a great experiment. well done fellas.
Well iv certainly put valve covers in our dish washer...when my wife wasn't home. But yes it totally works
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When I drove as my job, l used dishwasher tablets for screen washer fluid....the best screen wash ever used.
I love how you put motor oil in your dishwasher just to "do a little testing" dinner time is got to be interesting
Wow it broke the oil down and allowed it to mix into the water, if you had flushed between the washing machine tablets it would of worked better, but that worked a treat 💯💯💯💯👍👍👊👊
need more detergent.. petrol grease is very dense , much more than anything a dishwasher sees. Id recommend lye, sodium hydroxide.. as soon as it comes in contact with the grease it will form a soap, which will pull more grease out of the coolant.
Production quality really stepping it up haha
I have done it many times! Works wonders
You'll find that a bottle of diahwasher cleaner (for actually cleaning an empty dishwasher) will work so much better than diahwasher tablets. Have done tgos several times following VW water -cooled oil cooler failures.