Coolant System Filtration

Fifty-three percent of all catastrophic, premature diesel engine failures are directly related to improper cooling system maintenance techniques and habits. Using the correct water, antifreeze and supplemental coolant additives in cooling systems is more critical than ever to insure trouble-free service life.

Heavy duty cooling system manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations, maintenance techniques and filtration-product availabilities have dramatically changed over the past several years. WIX Filters has been very successful in keeping pace with the changes that directly affect our coolant-filtration products and the cooling system additives we offer. In addition, we have several services to help our customers properly test and service their heavy duty cooling systems.

From a chemical-additive and coolant-filtration perspective, WIX has virtually everything our heavy duty customers could want, with the exception of water and antifreeze, to properly maintain all of their heavy duty cooling systems. We have standard service interval products for systems being serviced every 15,000 miles or 250 hours of operation. We have slow-release products for systems being serviced every 12 months or 120,000 hours of operation.

We have extended service interval products for systems that are being serviced every 150,000 miles or 4,000 hours of operation. Which product to use is totally dependent on your customers’ decision as to how often they want to service the cooling system. All of our cooling system products are designed to be totally compatible with all other additive, filtration and antifreeze technologies available today.

Our coolant-filtration product offering has a wide variety of applications. Most of the filters contain some type of chemical additive. However, we do offer several filters without chemical additives for customers who prefer to use the liquid form of the additive and simply want a filter to protect the coolant system for any type of solid contamination. Regardless of which filter is used, they are all manufactured with epoxy-coated steel on their interiors to prevent rust-through due to improper additive levels or poor maintenance practices.

In an effort to insure our customers have everything they need to properly maintain their HD cooling systems, WIX offers both in-field test strips and a full-laboratory coolant-analysis program. The test strips will give our customers a quick and simple method to check their cooling systems on-site to make sure they are properly protected.

The full-laboratory analysis is a complete and in-depth test procedure that can aid in troubleshooting efforts or can verify the service interval for the system, the filtration products and/or the chemical additives you have chosen are actually performing and protecting the way they are expected. WIX also offers a filter mounting base specifically designed for adding a coolant filter to almost any cooling system. Finally, product information, part-number interchanges and technical support are available on our Web site, www.wixfilters.com, or they are just a toll-free telephone call away at 800-949-6698.