Hi all...er so cleaned my bike today for a few hours and got it looking lovely but as I was taking off the panels ready to clean it all, I thought I better check my coolant whilst I was there...looked inside the bottle and the coolant is dirty :( there is stuff floating in it. Looks brown like mud or silt from a river, but sits in the coolant like oil, ie; floats around and won't mix just forms droplets.
So I'm thinking it's oil :((((( gasket chamber fooked perhaps? Any ideas? I'll try and get a pic up but iPhone doesn't like this site cos apple are tossers. Thanks for help!
Syph
-- Edited by Sgt-syphilis on Sunday 9th of January 2011 01:50:21 AM
Well I'm thinking something could have fooked itself internally and is therefore pushing oil into it...but surely it would be a two way thing meaning coolant is leaking into the engine and I'm sure I would know about that lol
Although thinking about it under the pressure of the combustion it would only squeeze oil out, not vice versa.
Yeah I'm going to drain and put fresh in today. See if it gets dirty again. Am I right in thinking the drainage bolt is obscured by the exhaust?? :(
No real loss in power, dies in last gear a bit but, well just accelerates a lot slower. Thought that was a bit common and just down to milage..?
Well I think it may have been like it for some time. I remember looking over my bike once when I was very drunk and saw it. But then forgot about it lol. The bottle is stained you see, so it's only when you look right inside you can see!
Collant and go into your bottom end, did on my yz85 , this made oil come out of the over flow, also the gearbox oil. Went like (milky) as the water pump seal had gone.
