Thread: ¿¿¿Winterizing a V-8 houseboat engine???
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Default ¿¿¿Winterizing a V-8 houseboat engine???
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:13:32 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote:

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:21:31 -0500, Dave Brown
wrote:

PLUS, it will be mixing with the water that is
already there thereby reducing the protection level (and possibly
passing the threshold of protection).

Adding 10% water to pure glycol, which freezes at 8 F, lowers the
freezing point to -90 F.

Casady

Since water freezes at 32 F, how could that possibly be true?
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