What’s everyone using for coolant

[mcamzr]

Just wondering what everyone’s using for coolant. I just flushed my system and need to fill it up. Long story short the Sled was peeped mixing the green and blue Yamaha coolant and it really mad a mess. So for the last three years I’ve had Polaris 50/50 in it and it was starting to gel up it looks like so I decided to throughly flush it out and start over. Thanks for the help. Mike.

 

[gitrdun]

I have been using Polaris 60/40 because that's what the Yamaha dealer carried, but mine is the non gelling kind! Kidding aside, mine has been in both machines for about 10 years since I put the heat exchangers in, and still looks and tests like new. If the Polaris antifreeze is the most accessible to you, I wouldn't be afraid to use it again.

 

[Bahr05]

Standard green automotive type, 50/50, with water wetter added to it.

 

[mcamzr]

This is my fun and why I ask. I found a post about peak long life 50/50 safe fornall models, but it is orange.

 

[Hooray!]

Yamalube's blue coolant or BMW or Mercedes use the same blue coolant with aluminum additives... why save $10 and screw up your cooling system, the blue is specific to what we need, I am sure green or orange will work buy why not use Yamalube where we need so little.

 

[mcamzr]

Only 2010 and newer came with blue. Mine is an 09 and came with green. The dealer toped itnoff with the blue and well you can see what happened.

 

[Hooray!]

Interesting, my 2009 XTX has blue, assumed it was stock then as well and Yamalube coolant is blue. Maybe the dealer did a change with green, maybe others have green too from dealer.

 

[mp5]

Honda HP coolant 50/50. Flushed it this fall and temp light has not come on all yr in any snow conditions. Use it in all my machines for yrs

 

[Yamajon1]

Never mix coolants. If you are going to change to a different one you need to flush the system first.

 

[mcamzr]

Honda HP coolant 50/50. Flushed it this fall and temp light has not come on all yr in any snow conditions. Use it in all my machines for yrs

I thought about Honda 50/50. That is what is in my Rancher and I did think it would be nice to keep it all the same. I have used a Preston’s flush and ran at least 100 gallons of water through the system, and have a new radiator to put in it. Figured it was a good time tomstart from scratch.

 

[mcamzr]

Thinking between these two. Don’t know why I make this so hard on myself!!

 

[maim]

usually just dump the old stuff and fill with yama cool or if it is an older sled, with prestone premix universal antifreeze that is supposed to mix with anything.

 

[radianguy]

My sled had same problem last year, I used peak long life coolant (green) a few years prior. Ended up changing rad and filling system with Maxima Coolanol. Hopefully no more trouble with it.

 

[Hooray!]

Why not use YamaCool? Similar to German blue coolants, designed for our sleds and cheap all things considered.