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-----Acid washing the cooling system in a marine engine
I have a marine engine that could have rust clogging the cooling ports in the block. Could I use
muriatic acid
⇦ on
eBay or
Amazon [affil link] as a flush to clean the block? If so, should I use it full strength or diluted? How many minutes would you recommend that I allow it to work before flushing with fresh water?
Thanks,
- Richmond, Virginia
2002
2002
Hi Gil,
I see that no one else had replied.... so here's my reply but then I sure ain't no chemist.
Firstly you did NOT indicate whether your engine is running ie. cooling using salt water, i.e., brine or is a closed system using clean(ish) water.
Ah, salt is sodium chloride and muriatic acid, ie. Hydrochloric, is HCl. Hence I don't think that it would work too well for you. Use sulfuric. But for clean water it should be OK.
Use 50% concentration...but then if you buy muriatic it is probably diluted somewhat anyhow. Run for an hour, ie. pump it around for an hour. Then discard after NEUTRALIZING with
baking soda [in bulk on
eBay
or
Amazon [affil link]
first of all. See # 12461 and #
12044, too.
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