Products & Services - Cooling Systems

Coolant and Your Engine

The cooling system of any vehicle is by far the most important component of the entire machine. It is a fact that between 60 and 80% of engine and transmission failures are caused by cooling system "malfunctions". This has been an enormous cost to equipment owners and $1.5 billion dollars annually is attributed to this failure across Australia.

This is an enormous amount of money considering the fact that it could be reduced dramatically (probably by 75%) by the installation of the correct cooling system products.

FluidMasters ongoing commitment is to offer the very best cooling system products that can be produced. The products FluidMasters market were developed by the School of Chemical Engineering at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (Curtin University) in the early 1980’s by Dr Richie and his team developed a protectorate as well as a flushing product.

FluidMasters have been marketing these products to their client base since 1982 and in that time the two most common and most destructive problems confronting the operator as far as the cooling system is concerned are "Cavitation Erosion" (Pit holes that drill through the cylinder liners) and "Electrolysis" (the destruction of alloys, i.e. cylinder heads etc).These two major problems have become a thing of the past for our clients with not one instance being recorded in over 26 years.

The design of cooling systems today is as it was in Henry Ford’s time, with very little changes. Water, a radiator and radiator hoses, fan belts, a radiator cap, and a water pump.

In engines today it is essential to protect complicated alloy heads and multi valve systems. An alloy head is subjected to "electrolysis", the disintegrating of alloy by electrical action of the engine. It is as though the engine is one big "battery". An alloy head can cost anywhere from $1000.00 to $6000.00.

Scary thought but a reality, and still they go unprotected as owners take the advice of the repairer or the garage owner who sells them the incorrect or inadequate product for their equipment’s cooling systems. Remember, the retailer usually has little knowledge of the products he is selling.

So, why is it that FluidMasters can advise you on the correct products for this protection? Because, we manufacture our products to perform as required by the manufacturer. Sadly though, MANY of the OEM engines cooling system protection just DO NOT WORK, or fair before the stipulated time of protection is reached.

Diesel Engine manufacturers have increased engine operating temperatures to improve engine efficiency. This means proper cooling system maintenance is especially important. Overheating,overcooling, pitting, cavitation, erosion, cracked heads, piston seizures, and plugged radiators are classic cooling system failures.

Proper coolant selection and maintenance of the system is the owner’s choice and the right coolant is vital to successful engine service life. In fact, coolant is just as important as the quality of your fuel or lubricating oil.

FluidMasters provides cooling system preventative maintenance products and services to help you avoid the down-time & costly effects of coolant-related engine / transmission failures.

Below are images of the results from lack of system maintenance (Images from the Caterpillar Coolant book):

	Corrosion on a water pump passage due to lack of supplemental coolant additive in the cooling system.
	Rust and scale deposits in absence of supplemental coolant additive caused temperature regulators to fail.
	Failure causing corrosion on a pre-combustion caused by lack of supplemental coolant additive in the cooling system.

Our Cooling System maintenance products are branded and include:

• Generation 4 Cooling System Conditioner
• Cooling System All Seasons Coolant
• Cooling System Flush
• Cooling System Stop Leak

Onsite Services

To get your equipment serviced usually means taking the equipment to a service centre or mechanic. Not any more. FluidMasters offer an onsite service by their highly trained personnel in a specially equipped service van for transmission, gear box, differential power steering and cooling system comprehensive servicing. The service van is unique in the technology it offers for operators to get their equipment serviced professionally onsite.

Can you afford not to use FluidMasters for your cooling system? Contact them now on 1300 302 949.

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