osceolacabin
Pro
The wife was riding the FX today, temperature around 35 degrees doing around 15 - 20 mph (riding with the shorty on the 120). Figure around 30 minutes drive time total and the temperature light came on, she shut it down almost immediately and it puked out about 6 - 8 oz of coolant. I wasn't there @ the time...forgot the key to old reliable the Doo Ss.
Well the first thing I checked was the front cooler seeing that I'm running 96 studs up the middle. Dry as a bone, noticed coolant dripping out the pan. Put it up on the lift @ home...pulled the panels and the coolant bottle wasn't showing any coolant. Filled it up as I said earlier with 6- 8 oz., ran it till it overheated (with the coolant cap off to burp) nothing out the overfill hose. Both front coolers are hot, so no air in the system. Ran it back up to temperature, get the overheat light and I ran it so more...still nothing out the overfill.
I pulled all the access panels and I believe it definitely came out the overfill line. Checked the bottle for cracks, nothing. So, has anyone else experienced this?
I'm working thru the problems with this lemon, hoping by the end of the season I'll have what I paid for in the fall. There is lots of good in this machine, the gremlins just need to be removed soon...
Well the first thing I checked was the front cooler seeing that I'm running 96 studs up the middle. Dry as a bone, noticed coolant dripping out the pan. Put it up on the lift @ home...pulled the panels and the coolant bottle wasn't showing any coolant. Filled it up as I said earlier with 6- 8 oz., ran it till it overheated (with the coolant cap off to burp) nothing out the overfill hose. Both front coolers are hot, so no air in the system. Ran it back up to temperature, get the overheat light and I ran it so more...still nothing out the overfill.
I pulled all the access panels and I believe it definitely came out the overfill line. Checked the bottle for cracks, nothing. So, has anyone else experienced this?
I'm working thru the problems with this lemon, hoping by the end of the season I'll have what I paid for in the fall. There is lots of good in this machine, the gremlins just need to be removed soon...
Yellowknife
TY 4 Stroke Master
I had an evil coolant leak. To troubleshoot it, I re-routed the overflow line just above my right footwell so I could see if it was overflowing, cause my foot and the snow around my foot would be green.
Turned out it wasn't leaking from the overflow so I continued the troubleshooting.
I got the machine up to temperature in the garage until it shut itself down under overheat protection. At that point I put gloves on and started squeezing each of the coolant lines and BOOM, I squeezed one line that just started pissing coolant out the end of it where it connects to the base of the motor. The clamp was tight but not tight enough, so initially it was a hard leak to find. I tightened it up good, retested the same way and all is fine.
The dealer did a pressure test on the cooling system before I did it my way and they never found anything. Those pressure tests aren't as good as heating them up yourself and squeezing the lines by hand.
Turned out it wasn't leaking from the overflow so I continued the troubleshooting.
I got the machine up to temperature in the garage until it shut itself down under overheat protection. At that point I put gloves on and started squeezing each of the coolant lines and BOOM, I squeezed one line that just started pissing coolant out the end of it where it connects to the base of the motor. The clamp was tight but not tight enough, so initially it was a hard leak to find. I tightened it up good, retested the same way and all is fine.
The dealer did a pressure test on the cooling system before I did it my way and they never found anything. Those pressure tests aren't as good as heating them up yourself and squeezing the lines by hand.
