jpilk99
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- Snowmobile
- 2006 Yamaha Apex GT
As I continue to try and bring this '06 Apex GT back into good health, I drained the oil out of the oil tank as part of trying to find any oil leak(s) in the tank or hose. Seller said it had a leak somewhere --- may have simply been overflow from him putting new oil filter on. Don't know. But, after cleaning off tank and finding now cracks/leaks, I put it and it's hose back on the sled and filled it with oil; right around 3 1/3 quarts of new Mobil 1 0W-30. After running it a few minutes - and it ran GREAT. Checked the oil level and it was a tiny bit over the "F" so I grabbed my industrial sized turkey baster and sucked out about a 1/2 a quart ....and it was coffee 'n cream colored!!!!!! I know that means water in the oil.
I will say that I checked the coolant level before I fired it for the first time and then after the multiple times running it for maybe a total of 5 minutes, the coolant level appeared to be exactly the same.
I drained the oil from the drain plug under motor and will refill tomorrow and fire it up to see what happens. But any suggestions are gladly welcome as to what might be going on. Hoping I didn't buy a lemon. Only 5k miles. Again, starts great, idles great, rev's great....
I will say that I checked the coolant level before I fired it for the first time and then after the multiple times running it for maybe a total of 5 minutes, the coolant level appeared to be exactly the same.
I drained the oil from the drain plug under motor and will refill tomorrow and fire it up to see what happens. But any suggestions are gladly welcome as to what might be going on. Hoping I didn't buy a lemon. Only 5k miles. Again, starts great, idles great, rev's great....