I'll be on vacation for ten days at the beginning of December and I want to run that marine antifreeze through my Titan. Do I just empty the water out of my water box and fill it up with Antifreeze, flush the antifreeze through the system, and keep refilling it until pink antifreeze comes out my solution hose? Is there anything else that I need to do to help protect any freezing that might occur if the space heater in the truck loses power?
Winterizing my truckmount with antifreeze for the first time
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Mikey P
Administrator
Yeah, put it in your garage.
hogjowl
Idiot™
That’s difficult if your color blind
Sniff
Sniff
We have no garages out here. That must be a west coast thing
Mikey P
Administrator
What?
bob vawter
Grassy Knoller
three words fo you...
frozen capillary tubes
your pressure gauge will peg and break...100%...you can't stop it unless you pull the gauge and tube......
the Dwyers is next... then the HX cuz there will be a bubble of water left in it
yor so scrwed
frozen capillary tubes
your pressure gauge will peg and break...100%...you can't stop it unless you pull the gauge and tube......
the Dwyers is next... then the HX cuz there will be a bubble of water left in it
yor so scrwed
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Mikey P
Administrator
No garage?
Where do you keep all your shit?
Where do you keep all your shit?
hogjowl
Idiot™
We hand it in trees
Cleanworks
Moderator
Come on Jimmy, don't be so harsh. If they're still hanging in the trees in alabama, how can you expect them to spell?
bob vawter
Grassy Knoller
Hang a lite bulb right next to the pressure gauge and maybe the pump as well
Cleanworks
Moderator
100 watt incandescent in a metal trouble light.
bob vawter
Grassy Knoller
Wit a clamp..
You’ll be impressed when you see my setup in Feb.
Living The Dream
Member
Hey Matt hope you have a good vacation. I do pretty much just what you said. I drain the water box completely and suck out any remaining water with vacuum. Dump about 3 gallons in the box and attach a hose with an open end to my QC and run till it turns pink. If I'm going to keep my solution line in there I'll run it through that and any tools that will be left in the cold. I unscrew my fresh water QC inlet and drain of any water. I also prime some into my chemical meter till its pink. I hope this helps. I use to start with a mixture of 70/30 regular antifreeze and continue to reuse till it was to diluted but it was kind of a pain to contain it all when starting up for the day. And last but not least I use 2 heaters with thermostats on 2 different breakers. Best of luck! Have a great vacation!
Thanks Nick. Yeah, I'll have my heaters hooked up. I like the blanket tent method I read on the other thread. I'm just wanting to make sure nothing bad happens when I'm out of town. I'll enjoy my vacation a lot more, knowing that it won't freeze, even if the power cuts off
Cleanworks
Moderator
So, where you going Matt?
Carnival Magic cruise on December the 2nd through the 9th
Cleanworks
Moderator
Sounds like fun, leave your troubles behind and enjoy yourself.
hogjowl
Idiot™
Yeah
Now that we all know how long you’ll be gone
You have nothing to worry about
Now that we all know how long you’ll be gone
You have nothing to worry about
I'm worried about Jimmy knowing
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Different rig but give you another idea of what we do
bob vawter
Grassy Knoller
OHH YEA.....the barf boat....!
I know, I know. I really wanted to go on a Royal Caribbean, but the wife's "friends" at work were all bragging about how good this trip with the magic was on these islands. Kinda like how you guys have to use the prespray that the popular guys use on here. I think it's annoying. It took us a fkn year to pay for this cruz, so there'd better not be any barfing in front of my kids or I'll bitch out her "popular" friends
Mikey P
Administrator
With no garage his house must be so full of crap, how would a thief ever find the VCR, Casio watches, Acer 13" laptop or the $56 hidden under the chifarobe?
