Hi All,
I had a slight leak of coolant from the weep hole on the water pump housing so following advice on here, I drained system, removed water pump housing and fitted new O rings and gaskets.
Here are some images of what I found inside the housing.
It looks like the HD coolant had been used (bright orange) previously. I cleaned all this up and reassembled.
Due to the gunge and the price of HD coolant, I decided to buy 3 litres of Castrol Motorcycle coolant (greeny blue). On the bottle it says "for all water cooled motorcycles" but then says "not suitable for magnesium alloy engines". Should I use this or not?
For now, I have reused the coolant that came out as it looked in good condition and the service manual stated that it is ok to do this.
As it has been constantly raining, I haven't been able to take my bike for a run to test if there are no more leaks. I have run it up to temperature in the garage and dry so far.
I had a slight leak of coolant from the weep hole on the water pump housing so following advice on here, I drained system, removed water pump housing and fitted new O rings and gaskets.
Here are some images of what I found inside the housing.
It looks like the HD coolant had been used (bright orange) previously. I cleaned all this up and reassembled.
Due to the gunge and the price of HD coolant, I decided to buy 3 litres of Castrol Motorcycle coolant (greeny blue). On the bottle it says "for all water cooled motorcycles" but then says "not suitable for magnesium alloy engines". Should I use this or not?
For now, I have reused the coolant that came out as it looked in good condition and the service manual stated that it is ok to do this.
As it has been constantly raining, I haven't been able to take my bike for a run to test if there are no more leaks. I have run it up to temperature in the garage and dry so far.