Eliminating thermostat

[Inygknok]

I always use distilled water. I used to sell water distillers a few years ago. Really does make a damn huge difference with everything you do. I also wash the cars with the garden hose at my mom's friend's house where I had sold a combo of a water distiller and a water softener.

 

[TurboWarrior]

Remember to use a toyo t-stat. Compare it to an aftermarket you can see the quality difference. That and my temp was always too low. I changed to the toyota thermostat from an aftermarket one and its right in the middle now.

Whats the deal with using distilled water anyway?

 

[IJ.]

It has no minerals/impurities in it
(soon as you pour it in a motor that changes though)

 

[Inygknok]

It has no minerals/impurities in it
(soon as you pour it in a motor that changes though)

Unless you spend hours on end flushing it over and over again :biglaugh:

Doesn't eliminate all the crap in there, but does remove most of it with time!

I could give the explanation I had to give when selling distillers, but screw that...... I'll only bother saying it on popular demand.

Distilled water is just how God had it meant to be.... clean and free of impurities. Water is heated with a wire, and well, evaporated water is lighter than all the impurities that come along with it through our faucets and garden hose. Then, on my own distiller, it goes through an extra filter to remove one extra thing that I forgot how it was called. I even had to do the light bulb test to prove it was actually clean. Poured some distilled water in a brand new, plastic cup, with a light bulb with an open circuit to show the clients nothing happened. Then I stuck my clean finger in it, and pretended to get zapped (a few times, I had the honor of having a gizmo in my pocket that made a BZZT sound). Then I did the same with their tastey and healthy faucet water....... and asked them to stick their fingers in when the light bulb turned on. No one dared :biglaugh:

 

[IJ.]

Ingy: Ummmm wrong.....

Soon as it touches the IRON block it picks up minerals and is no longer "distilled"

 

[starscream5000]

I recommend using the stock 190 t-stat. If you have a well taken car of coolants system with all hoses in good shape, clean, full flowing radiator, freshly rebuilt fan clutch, and a good water pump, you will have nothing to worry about. If there was a problem with the stock cooling system, Toyota would have done something about it 20 years ago. The reason some people seem to think otherwise is because they probably still have some of those 20 year old cooling parts on their car . Be glad something on a vehicle lasts 20 years, that shows how well thought out and how well built the machine was from the factory. Like a few others have said, if you still have doubts, at least get a dual core radiator, make sure the rest of you coolant system is in good shape, but I'd personally keep the stock temp t-stat.

This of course changes for those (like jdub) who are running considerable amounts of power through their machine and need a little extra something to make sure the coolant system doesn't shit itself, like the bigger radiator, hard pipes, or silicone hoses, new water pump, fanclutch/electric fans, etc.