Using automotive antifreeze in your bike, I have heard, will destroy your water pump seals and water pump impeller.
This is apparently because “automotive antifreeze has abrasive particles included to scour deposits and keep them in solution.”
I recently did the top end on the yz, used distilled water, and Prestone with Ethylene Glycol just as another thread here had suggested. One of the things I did though was to strain the distilled water and coolant through a paper coffee filter. I know it sounds anal but I do it with the fuel also, after finding c rap in the tank a while back.
My question is this. Are these so called “abrasive particles” of a size that they would be caught in the coffee filter when I strained the coolant, or should I drain the fluid and start over? What coolant, would you guys recommend?
Thanks,
Dave
This is apparently because “automotive antifreeze has abrasive particles included to scour deposits and keep them in solution.”
I recently did the top end on the yz, used distilled water, and Prestone with Ethylene Glycol just as another thread here had suggested. One of the things I did though was to strain the distilled water and coolant through a paper coffee filter. I know it sounds anal but I do it with the fuel also, after finding c rap in the tank a while back.
My question is this. Are these so called “abrasive particles” of a size that they would be caught in the coffee filter when I strained the coolant, or should I drain the fluid and start over? What coolant, would you guys recommend?
Thanks,
Dave
