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Wear Sunscreen
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Antifreeze

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I believe I have used incorrect antifreeze in my 1900 water cooled engine, and mixed red with the original blue.
Is this catastrophic or can I get away with it for a couple of weeks at which time I will be having a recon engine in.
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If it were me in your circumstances I would leave it as is. See what others say but for two weeks.......?
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I would drain the system, pretty sure that mixing is a bad idea. You can run it with water in the system or use pink antifreeze and reuse this when you fit your recon engine.
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Depends on the antifreeze, but most of the later red antifreeze's from G12+ are miscible with the green. Just turns a funny colour and is not ideal.
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You're replacing the engine in a couple of weeks? Leave it - it's not worth the expense of yet more antifreeze
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