Chris2012 Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 I used the pellet variety in my old Chevy van. Worked good, but one of my hoses (the one to my thermostat IIRC) burst open. I used the silvery liquid kind (I know there 2 now, one is concentrate, not that one I don't think), in my old LeBaron, no effect. I put a capsule in my 3.1 Lumina not an hour ago. Can I expect any adverse effects? What if I put another one in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88red4cyl Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 I used the pellet variety in my old Chevy van. Worked good, but one of my hoses (the one to my thermostat IIRC) burst open. I used the silvery liquid kind (I know there 2 now, one is concentrate, not that one I don't think), in my old LeBaron, no effect. I put a capsule in my 3.1 Lumina not an hour ago. Can I expect any adverse effects? What if I put another one in? It's a band-aid. not any kind of fix.. I used it once when I was 16 with absolutely no benefit.. The thing leaked just as much as it did before I put the stuff in.. All Barrs will do is clog up your coolant passages.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94 olds vert Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 I wouldn't use that. I have used Barrs in the power steering system before and have got good results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy K Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 I'd stay away from stuff with big pellets... but i have used the stuff that has a copper power in it....... figured it was "soft" and small enough to not cause an problems, besides, I know how to flush a heater core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Fury Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 RUN AWAY from stop leaks and just fix the problem before you fuck everything else up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich_e777 Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 You`d be better throwing back at the store you got it from, i recently needed to fix a leaky radiator and a guanatee fix for $160(new premium radiator) vs risk of a fubar`ed engine for less than $20, seemed better to buy a new radiator. Now the engine bay only gets luke warm:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertISaar Posted November 9, 2012 Report Share Posted November 9, 2012 normally, i would say it's a waste of money....... however the 95MC: at about 39K miles(sometime in late 1997 IIRC), it lost the waterpump. a couple of days later, my father notices it throwing some oil into the coolant.... pretty much symptomatic of a bad headgasket caused by the overheating when the waterpump went. well, seeing how he bought the car about 5,000 miles(and only a month or two) before that, he was pissed. he got some Barr's stop-leak, ran it through the cooling system, i believe it was flushed afterwards. the MC is sitting at 204K miles right now. it still seems to mix an incredibly small amount of oil into the coolant, but it is still alive and kicking. so............. you MAY be able to get away with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockTherapy Posted November 9, 2012 Report Share Posted November 9, 2012 exactly what night fury said, you need a flush and fill plus repairing whatever was leaking in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2012 Posted November 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2012 exactly what night fury said, you need a flush and fill plus repairing whatever was leaking in the first place. expletive included? The leak is fixed for now. What I will do eventually is flush the system and search for the leak. Nothing wrong w/a temp fix if you don't have the time or opportunity to find the leak. Yes the pellet stuff is hazardous to hoses and whatnot, as I mentioned. This stuff, in the capsule, is evidently gentler. Nice and sweet. Muah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Cutlass94 Posted November 10, 2012 Report Share Posted November 10, 2012 Didn't mythbusters prove that egg yolks stop leaks? Sent from my iPhone in some random spot of Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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