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Cleaning out gunk

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Wetling

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The water in my system has gotten a little gunky (I must not have used enough water wetter or something). I'm replacing the block so I'd like to make sure the pump and tubes are as clean as possible before hand so I don't a repeat situation.

The question is, what is the best way to do this? I was thinking of first running some straight bleach through the system, and then running some distilled water through to rinse it out.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?
 
Bleach will blacken copper and pit aluminum.

50% water, 40% Pine Sol, 10% Lysol is the standard at procooling; I've always used 25% Simple Green, 75% water. Drain you system, fill with cleaning solution, run the pump until your gunk is gone (couple hours?), rinse thoroughly, refill.

Your gunk may be from the water wetter itself. Too much can cause a slime that coats the insides of your tubes and blocks.
 
HeThatKnows said:
Bleach will blacken copper and pit aluminum.
25% Simple Green,
I'm just now getting into watercooling so I've yet to have to clean a system. But I would have to go with this. Simple Green is the best cleaner ever made. It cleans very well, and wont damage anything, you can even get it in your eyes and not go blind.

As far as bleach goes, don't use it unless you plan on replacing all the metal parts in your system. I first learned this when I worked at a carwash, and a guy sprayed Bleche-White whitewall cleaner on unpolished/uncoated aluminum wheels. He had to buy new wheels for his car it tore them up so bad. (I remember this clearly, because he tried to blame the damage on our carwash) HeThatKnows stated it will pit aluminum...a more accurate statement is that it will eat aluminum into nothing.
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My system is getting kinda dirty i would be interested in flushing it with your method is it ok to do this with my maze4 still on cause i would really fraeking hate to take it apart then reassemble it and have it leak all over.
 
Yeah, it's okay to do with everything still assembled and in the case. In fact, that's the whole intent--minimum down time. I even used my comp while the cleaner circulated. :p
 
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