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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:31:14 PM EDT
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It's a Jeep. It comes pre-ruined from the factory.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:31:24 PM EDT
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You should've punched him so hard his shoulders touched
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:33:34 PM EDT
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Likely he is confusing the radiator with a battery that is not sealed. They should technically be filled with battery acid but distilled water will work in a pinch if not much is needed.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:34:07 PM EDT
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Start pissing in it and tell him to fuck off. A little black pepper and a healthy few pissins have gotten me back home a couple times.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:34:09 PM EDT
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Technically distilled water is better because no minerals to cause eventual problems. There are things in modern antifreeze that helps prevent these problems though. I would keep doing what your doing.
You get bonus points for owning a CJ 5. Respect. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:34:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a Jeep. It comes pre-ruined from the factory. There's that first post thingy again. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:34:55 PM EDT
[#7]
Pics of Jeep?
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:35:42 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Start pissing in it and tell him to fuck off. A little black pepper and a healthy few pissins have gotten me back home a couple times. WOLVERINES! |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:37:51 PM EDT
[#9]
Tell him it's not an iron.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:39:05 PM EDT
[#10]
Any non-purified/distilled water is bad for a heat exchanger.
Bad enough to cause you problems? Who knows...it’s a jeep. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:40:37 PM EDT
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Ummm its a CJ5, like 30 years old, if it hasn't been ruined in 30 years by now, not sure tap water is going to do it, lol
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:42:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ummm its a CJ5, like 30 years old, lol 44 to be exact 
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:44:35 PM EDT
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Did you kick sand at him to assert dominance?
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:45:17 PM EDT
[#14]
Depends
If I had city water I might do it from the tap. My water now if I fill a bottle of water from the hose after a couple hours the water is red and there’s all sorts of shit at the bottom. I can’t even fill my kids kiddie pool with it, I have to put one of my 275 gallon totes in my truck and fill it at a friends who has municipal water |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:46:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WOLVERINES! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Start pissing in it and tell him to fuck off. A little black pepper and a healthy few pissins have gotten me back home a couple times. WOLVERINES! And then punch him so hard his shoulders touch, as suggested above. That guy is out of his mind trying to tell you something. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:47:05 PM EDT
[#16]
FPNI
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:47:15 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any non-purified/distilled water is bad for a heat exchanger. Bad enough to cause you problems? Who knows...it’s a jeep. This. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:48:12 PM EDT
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Quoted: Tell him it's not an iron. Get ready for "What's an iron" ? |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:50:37 PM EDT
[#19]
He's right Distilled water is better than tap water . But I used to use tap water in my 75 CJ . Hell I used creek water and lake water in that thing also .
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:53:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a Jeep. It comes pre-ruined from the factory. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:56:38 PM EDT
[#21]
He's correct you should be using distilled water for the cooling system.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:57:17 PM EDT
[#22]
what's dissolved in your tap water?
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:59:10 PM EDT
[#23]
This guy is a douche, but he has reasonable advice for how you should have responded.
 Jeff Goldblum Clarifies Name Pronunciation |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 5:59:38 PM EDT
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LOL, tell him to go visit any shop/dealer in the area and watch what they put in it..guaranteed it comes out of a hose hooked to the local water utility.....
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:00:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WOLVERINES! And its Danny and not 'kid'
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:03:34 PM EDT
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City water? fine. Using well or spring fed water.... I wouldn't make it a habit
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:07:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Likely he is confusing the radiator with a battery that is not sealed. They should technically be filled with battery acid but distilled water will work in a pinch if not much is needed. incorrect. the correct amount of battery acid is added to the battery when it is initially serviced. if, when checking the levels, you find a cell is low, you top off with distilled water, not battery acid. the water evaporates/boils off, not the acid. you are restoring the missing water when you top off with distilled water. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:08:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: what's dissolved in your tap water? You don't get an annual report from the city or test your own well? My tap water has about 140-160 ppm and the water company gives me a complex break down of this and that. I drank Navy tap water while sitting 50 to 100 feet from a reactor core most of my career. I'm immune.  You gotta check your water. Especially if you have children or anyone in the family has bad enough health issues. Flint Michigan was a real thing, not the first, not the last, and not the worst case. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:11:00 PM EDT
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Neighbor was right.
Distilled water goes in vehicles unless it's a shit box you don't care about. You don't want that crusty white shit you can feel under your faucet in your cooling system. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:13:27 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a Jeep. It comes pre-ruined from the factory. Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a Jeep. It comes pre-ruined from the factory. FPNI Quoted: Technically distilled water is better because no minerals to cause eventual problems. There are things in modern antifreeze that helps prevent these problems though. I would keep doing what your doing. You get bonus points for owning a CJ 5. Respect. Agree with the parts in red.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:16:35 PM EDT
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44 years of tap water in your Jeep? Damn, it is going to burst wide open any day now! Any day now!!!
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:17:16 PM EDT
[#32]
Ive used any water i can find in a pinch.
I buy premixed or mix with distilled when changing or topping off. Ensures you have the correct ph. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:18:34 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Depends If I had city water I might do it from the tap. My water now if I fill a bottle of water from the hose after a couple hours the water is red and there’s all sorts of shit at the bottom. I can’t even fill my kids kiddie pool with it, I have to put one of my 275 gallon totes in my truck and fill it at a friends who has municipal water Why not just get a water softener ? |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:19:37 PM EDT
[#34]
Yep. Should use distilled.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:22:02 PM EDT
[#35]
Should've used Voss water to flex on your poor neighbor
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:25:13 PM EDT
[#36]
distilled water is better, but tap water is better than no water.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:26:13 PM EDT
[#37]
They say distilled water is better... but lots and lots of people, myself included, have used tap water.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:30:03 PM EDT
[#38]
I guess that if you dont have hard water its fine.
One time i stopped on a very lonely road cause a trucker flagged me down. His rig overheated so i took him to a stock tank that was a couple miles away. Filled the old cooler i had in my pickup and got him going again. He didnt seem to mind putting that water in. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:31:23 PM EDT
[#39]
Tap water is full of minerals. So it is conceivable that scale will develop in the radiator over time. Of course, given that this is an old vehicle, you probably need to worry about rust more than mineral buildup. On the bright side, radiators are relatively cheap.
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:32:19 PM EDT
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When I worked at the dealer and did a coolant serivce....1 gallon of coolant....the rest from the shop hose
You’re fine OP. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:34:50 PM EDT
[#41]
I Just use coolant or tap water or a mix depending on application
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:37:52 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a Jeep. It comes pre-ruined from the factory.  
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:39:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: distilled water is better, but tap water is better than no water. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:41:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why not just get a water softener ? We have a great system for water inside the home Outside hose bibs don’t get run through it though, or I’d spend a fortune in salt |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:45:44 PM EDT
[#45]
Did they even have anything but tap water when the CJ5 was made?
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:46:45 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any non-purified/distilled water is bad for a heat exchanger. Bad enough to cause you problems? Who knows...it’s a jeep. Pretty much this. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:51:52 PM EDT
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It greatly depends on the quality of the water from your hose. If you have a lot of iron or calcium in your water, then yeah, that could cause some long term loss of cooling efficiency, as those contaminants accumulate in your water jacket and radiator. Some minerals can also increase damage from galvanic corrosion in your cooling system, and interfere with the corrosion inhibitors in your coolant.
Distilled water is like 70 cents per gallon from the grocery store, so why even risk it? Unless you are going to trade in every 3-5 years, in which case you probably aren't changing coolant anyhow. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:53:01 PM EDT
[#48]
Your neighbor is technically correct.
 Distilled water is ideal. However, most any municipal potable water source will be fine to use. Some well water with sufficiently high TDS or chlorides (which would both make it terrible to drink anyway) could have issues with scaling or other reactions within the system. |
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:57:06 PM EDT
[#49]
It's Jeep, you can piss in the radiator and be good!
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Posted: 6/25/2020 6:59:23 PM EDT
[#50]
The neighbor is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
I wouldn't worry about it though OP. |
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