Originally Posted by Dharn55

I had my radiators hot flushed, the drew rags through the aluminum tubes and then flushed the system out with water several times. I never used shout or any other product, but probably should have. There was still a little residue for a few years, it has been 9 years since my intermix, but none for many years now.

As to the houses deteriorating, I had extensive intermix, coolant like pudding, oil like a chocolate shake. Not sure how long it went before I discovered it. I tried changing the oil and coolant to see if it went away ( this was before many were fixing these problems) and it was obviously still intermixing. I parked it 9/2008 and did not take it apart until 4/2009. About 90% of the hoses are still in the car, never replaced. I have replaced one or two over the years since then.

Of course when my cracked head/intermix happened everyone said the engine was toast and had to be replaced (48,000 mile). This included the dealer, my indy and Jake. Nobody even talked about the houses back then. Fixed it myself and the car turned 93,000 miles today.

What can I say!