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Hey all,
Tonight I went out to fill up on gas and on the way back home steam started pouring all over the place. Well the cap popped off of the antifreeze resevoir and of course blew AF everywhere. I stopped and called wife to bring AF and stuff. Filled up AF again and recapped and went... well it blew off again and got lost. By this time i had ran out of antifreeze and the Cat dealer was already closed so I had to fill it up with water and put a piece of rag down in the resevoir to cap it just to get it home. Well it blew the rag out a few times (which i was suprised it built that much pressure because the rag was in there tight). My question is how can i drain the water out to make sure it dont freeze and crack something? Can I just take the cap off the radiator to leave room for expansion? Ive looked at taking the hose off but I know there will still be water down in the cooling system. When I looked at what could of caused the cap to strip I noticed that the neck with the threads for the cap was melted a bit and caved in, possibly even cracked at the seam. The only thing that I did when I filled up was added some fuel deicer to the fuel, I bought the deicer from the gas station, it was for gas and diesel engines so I would think that would be fine. Could the deicer that I used make the engine run hotter in turn building more pressure in the cooling system? I know that I shouldnt have used water but I didnt think I could use regular auto AF and I had to get the sled home... Any advice or help is greatly appreciated! The sled is a Arctic Cat 1996 ZRT 600.
Thanks again,
Northern Michigan Snow Junkie
Tonight I went out to fill up on gas and on the way back home steam started pouring all over the place. Well the cap popped off of the antifreeze resevoir and of course blew AF everywhere. I stopped and called wife to bring AF and stuff. Filled up AF again and recapped and went... well it blew off again and got lost. By this time i had ran out of antifreeze and the Cat dealer was already closed so I had to fill it up with water and put a piece of rag down in the resevoir to cap it just to get it home. Well it blew the rag out a few times (which i was suprised it built that much pressure because the rag was in there tight). My question is how can i drain the water out to make sure it dont freeze and crack something? Can I just take the cap off the radiator to leave room for expansion? Ive looked at taking the hose off but I know there will still be water down in the cooling system. When I looked at what could of caused the cap to strip I noticed that the neck with the threads for the cap was melted a bit and caved in, possibly even cracked at the seam. The only thing that I did when I filled up was added some fuel deicer to the fuel, I bought the deicer from the gas station, it was for gas and diesel engines so I would think that would be fine. Could the deicer that I used make the engine run hotter in turn building more pressure in the cooling system? I know that I shouldnt have used water but I didnt think I could use regular auto AF and I had to get the sled home... Any advice or help is greatly appreciated! The sled is a Arctic Cat 1996 ZRT 600.
Thanks again,
Northern Michigan Snow Junkie