Does anybody put ice in the radiator?

[trist007]

I think I heard of something like that. I heard that this guy put ice cubes in his radiator to cool the coolant even cooler. Does this work? I'm just curious.

 

[oldguy]

No it does not work.
First of all when the radiator is hot you can not open it to put ice in because of pressure and once you would put ice in it would melt and then be nothing but plain water in the system.
I think you misunderstood what you were hearing. They were probably talking about using Engine Ice which is a brand of coolant which brags that it can drastically reduce operating temps over using plain coolant. Does it do what it says? I have no proof one way or the other and I run plain old coolant

 

[stumanarama]

well said oldguy

 

[Jaybird]

But then, I bet you've never tried crushed ice. Have you?

:)

 

[RYDMOTO]

Just go to 7-11 and buy a prestone lime slushy and put that in your radiator.