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HELP my coolant turned clear after only 4 months

Hey guys, I have a custom loop, d5 pump, a cool 240 rads, primochill tubing, acool dual bay res, ek cpu block, 2 ek 7970 blocks,

and i did the water cooling around july of this year and the coolant was red, like a sissy clear red, so a a month ago or so, i added some black dyes to make it look a little more blood red and i noticed today, all the dyes had floated to the bottom of the res and my res looks clear, almost like dirty water.  should i drain my loop and change the coolant?

 

 

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Yes, it sounds like the dye has turned into a precipitate.

In addition to draining the loop, you should also flush out the entire thing WELL, to make sure and get rid of any particulate in your blocks/rads (and then pay attention to temps every once in a while to make sure things aren't clogged). 

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if the coloring is gunked up, its probably gunked up in the rads, you should drain it, wash the rads HEAVILY and please, use distilled water

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You're going to need to flush your entire loop with distilled water to remove all that crap that is now clogging your waterblocks and radiators.

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I'd drain and clean all the blocks and res etc. 

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Hey guys, I have a custom loop, d5 pump, a cool 240 rads, primochill tubing, acool dual bay res, ek cpu block, 2 ek 7970 blocks,

and i did the water cooling around july of this year and the coolant was red, like a sissy clear red, so a a month ago or so, i added some black dyes to make it look a little more blood red and i noticed today, all the dyes had floated to the bottom of the res and my res looks clear, almost like dirty water.  should i drain my loop and change the coolant?

Better get cleaning. Rads, all your blocks, pump etc. 

A few runs with distilled water will help. Hope you get it running again.

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