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Originally posted by gsxr
About WW, it DOES help with a 50/50 mix, but not as much as with pure water or a lower mix like 80/20 or whatever. The advantage is it provides better heat transfer for added cooling capacity, it was never intended to affect either boiling or freezing points. The idea is that WW helps you ever get near the boiling point in the first place, and if you're near that, you have other issues to deal with! 
Not sure about the exhaust smell. I'd expect the leak would need to be pretty large to detect it with your schnozz. 
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Okay, so the Water Wetter
is worth using.
Re: the smell, okay...actually, that leads to a second question. What should blow-by smell like? I know it seems to be a weird question, but out of the 4 diesels I've owned thus far, only two of 'em have enough blow-by to be noticeable, and the other one had a serious engine problem that was causing said blow-by. On both the 300D and that other vehicle (an '80 IH Scout with a Nissan turbo diesel; I think it had a cracked piston, but the body was so junked that I sold it instead of trying to fix it), the blow-by (and therefore the exhaust) has a sweet smell to it...unfortunately, again, I have nothing to compare it to; the truck puts out very little blow-by and what little does come out goes straight through a crankcase depression regulator valve into the intake, so smelling it isn't really an option...
I dunno, maybe I'm overanalyzing things...between this, finals, and a major fundraiser selling Christmas trees for my Scout unit, I'm under an abnormally high amoutn of stress at the moment...