| Subject: | Re: Can you run without coolant... |
| From: | David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:03:29 -0500 |
At 11:25 AM 12/15/2010, John Rodgers wrote:
>Just as an aside - my Alaska business partners kid drove an Isuzu diesel
>from Anchorage to Kenai (about 150 miles) with no coolant in the engine
>and it didn't destroy the thing. Didn't phase it in fact. He fixed the
>problem - broken/burst coolant hose - and drove it another couple of
>years. It was really cold when he did this stunt -(like -35F) - which
>I'm sure made the difference in the survival of that engine.
I imagine the iron block helped as well...
d
