Managing these mineral oil concentrations requires a refractometer, which measures the refracting of light in the coolant to deliver a reading in degrees Brix. This reading indicates sugar ...

CCJ's 10-44 is brought to you by Chevron Delo heavy duty diesel engine oil. Now there's even more reasons to choose Delo. We're talking coolants again this week, but this time how to know when you've ...

Prestone Products Corp. announced it has heavy-duty test kits, test strips and a refractometer for antifreeze/coolant analysis. A coolant analysis program offers snapshots of what is happening inside ...

Temperatures across the U.S. are tumbling, and the temperature swing can be a lot for a truck's components to handle, especially the coolant system. For most of at least the last six months, the ...

You have a choice of two types of truck diesel engine coolant: extended life coolant (ELC), which is simpler to maintain, and fully formulated antifreeze, to which you add supplemental coolant ...

Your vehicle is a complicated piece of machinery, and keeping it running smoothly requires periodic inspections and maintenance of its various systems, including your engine’s cooling system and the ...

Elizabeth Nelson, coolant program manager at Polaris Laboratories, a fluid-analysis company in Indianapolis, Ind., tells a story that would strike fear into the heart of any fleet manager. A class-8 ...

And if you happened to add additional antifreeze concentrate during the winter, how will that affect your heat protection when the temperature shifts? By increasing the percentage of concentrate ...

Proper cooling is critical to any engine. Without some way to remove the heat created during the combustion process, the engine will quickly become a lump of scrap metal. But today's coolants provide ...

Engine coolants come in two varieties — ELC and Fully-Formulated. While coolant can last 600,000 miles or more, it eventually needs to be changed to remove dissolved solids or recharge protection.