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Brrrrrrrrrr!!! Help!

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Post by Street » Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:53 pm

This was my effort
I went with Fernox central heating cleaner. Pulled loads of scale / build up out into the bucket and had a minor improvement.
Wouldn't bother again though to be honest.

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Post by Pondrew » Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:38 pm

wiganz4 wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:57 pm That's what I'm going to do mate. Bucket of mixed rad cleaner, bilge pump and then into empty bucket backwards and forwards.
You could hire a manual domestic heating flushing/ pressure testing pump. That would give you the ability to pressurise the whole matrix and then fire it out under pressure to get any crud moving. May need multiple attempts and you would need something to cap one pipe temporarily that you can take off easily.
Just don't pump the pressure too high if you try this, as (I presume) the matrix will be aluminium and could burst.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.

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Post by x-driver » Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:20 am

This part is a common problem but the E85 doesn't seem to have one. You'd find it easily in the ETK diagram but there isn't any. It's however interesting that it's being sold for E85 but they clearly don't know they are useless to the buyer.

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