Actually you need to mix coolant at 50 50 to protect against overheating. Adding straight coolant will retain more heat than the mixture will and in most parts of the country overheating is a reality. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy Podsim To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:02 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] auto maintenance
I haven't ever changed anything but the oil in most of our cars unless they got over 100000 miles on them. Of course, the coolant does need to be changed but you can buy a tester that will tell you if it's good or not. And, how could you want the coolant to go down depends upon where you live. Jimmy...KD5QHH... New home page, http://www.podsim.us MSN, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:23 PM To: handyman-blind Subject: [BlindHandyMan] auto maintenance I went to the Dodge dealer today to make an appointment for the following work: oil and lube - they are free for 7 years or 75,000 miles Change air conditioner filter Change AWD power transfer unit fluid Change AWD overrunning clutch & rear carrier fluid The shop forman told me that they never changed an air conditioner filter and that they don't have any. I was asked how many miles and what vehicle I told him a Grand Caravan Sport 2003 with 38,000 miles He then asked why I wanted the awd fluids changed. I referred him to the manual that wants one changed every 15,000 and the other every 21,000 miles. He told me that it is not necessary. This is the second time that they refused to change those fluids. They also refused to change the break fluid so the last time I had to take it to a local garage. So next week I have to take it the local guy to have the break fluid changed. Two years ago he did not want to change the awd fluids and recommended that I take it to the dealer. Does this fluid really need to be changed? Lenny ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
