Whats going on with my loop ?

So just a quick update, TG said glad you fixed the block and never heard anything from them again, so no new block, I didnt tell them id brought a new one.

Then I still couldnt figure out why my loop was running sloppy, reviews I was reading had people saying they were getting 300 to 500 litres an hour on there MoRa IV with worst connections than im using, one guy stating he had 5 QD3's, 2 x 90s and 4 x 45 bends, and here I was with 80-100, it was doing my head it, I knew something must be wrong, so after buying another D5, and connecting it to the MoRa, there was still no improvement, so I started testing the system again, I took the front res out of the loop, still no improvement, took the ram block out of the loop, still no improvement, took the new water block out of the loop and bammmmm !!!! 300+ litres an hour, I thought there's no way this block is blocked, so again, there I was stripping the system down again, taking the new block out and stripping that down too, low and behold, it was indeed blocked again, WTF !!!, I guess whatever blocked the first one, there was still some of in the loop, sods law, so cleaned the block out, but this time I completely drained my system down the sink, connected my fish tanks RO tap to the inlet tube in the MoRa and left it to flush my system for an hour, now the system is back up and running with fresh coolant and everything cleaned out, ive now got 5.20 L/min average, which finally makes much more sense to me.

Just waiting for some new compression fittings to arrive and then i'll be getting rid of the clear tubing and fitting some new watercool EPDM to the system, but for now, its working, time to enojoy it.

 
Jamin280672 said:
im seriously considering adding a filter to the loop, but not sure how restrictive those are, maybe need to do a bit more homework on them.
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The finer the filter
The more restrictive it's going to be
Never tried one but vaguely remember looking at one
And decided it would be very restrictive
But if i did I would set it up either
With quick disconnects
Or a Y splitter or similar and some ball valves
So use the filter until pretty certain there's no debris left
Then remove it with quick disconnects
Or divert the coolant past it with Y splitter and ball valves
 
If you've got fish you'll probably be familiar with the fairlyopen cell sponge things you can get, which I've seen people use basically an apple corer to make a long cylinder of them with and have them in-line in tubes. It's probably the best trade off you'll get between restrictive and actually effective filtering (assuming you're not trying to catch anything too tiny).
 
If it is blocking again after such a short time my 2 quid is on there being some huge build of gunk/plasticiser/organic filth inside the radiator, which appears to be coming off in intermittent chunks and getting strapped in your block. If the tubes are susceptible to plasticiser leach then it can coat the inside of the radiator. I would check that out first before getting a filter, cos if you do have this kind of thing going on in your rad you'll need to attempt to thoroughly disturb and flush it from there, as a if there is a lot of gunk to filter out with erm, a filter, you're likely to be cleaning out the filter loads of times. I wouldn't use any kind of foam filter long term as even with a biocide I wouldn't rule out something trying to grow in there, like they are supposed to promote in fish tank filters where you want bacteria to grow in it to remove ammonia. Would be ok for short periods though I guess while you are trying to trap gunk.
 
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