u refering to my post, if u are i know its not oil. i need to change my coolant again to water wetter do to the fact i still ride my bike in the winter and the water wetter would freeze if i didnt put regualr coolant in it. i was saying i was goign to change back due to summer comign up and my oil is do thats all

 

devl, no that was in response to playfulgods comment about automotive coolant being to slick for bikes.

 

I didnt mean to slick. I heard there was coolant for bikes that wasnt slick like reg coolant and so not making a death trap if/when a leak occured. IE like why you cant run coolant on the track.

 

lol o ok my bad, but to that other comment i forgot whats it called thats in the antifreeze that makes it slicker than a wet virgin when shes 18, but ya even tracks dont like it when u run standard coolant. lol anyone know the name of the slick stuff in the coolant is called

 

I think you're referring to what Tahoe mentioned above. You mean silicates right?

 

as tahoe said, coolant is fine as long as it doesnt have silicates.I just by the Honda stuff for regular use.

dont just use water to mix, or to flush. regular water will eat away at your radiator, and cause your water pump problem by wearing out the seals.
you have to use purified(or some other special waterI cant remember right off the top of my head)

watter wetter is great, as playful god mentioned, because it is not slick like regular coolant, and is approved for track use. however it does not offer freeze protection.

Engine Ice does the same as watter wetter, is track approved, and offers freeze protection. as a matter of fact, I just bought some this afternoon to put in the bike for my track weekend next week.

 

How does the water pump work on these? I am confused how water can be to slick. I am new to motorcycle engines, so I am very curiuos how all of this stuff works. Is it like on a car, where the pump is driven by gears or a belt some how? I have noticed when I am riding that if I keep my RPM's below a certain range, my engine starts to warm up, but if I bring it up to around 5 or 6k, it will start to cool down again. So I have wondered how the water pump works on these.

 

the water pump has a shaft that gets driven from the oil pump...or is it something else, i can't remember. just look at the schematics and it'll tell you.
it's not water that's slick, it's coolant that is slick.

 

water isnt too slick. What they are referring to is 'tap' water has alot of additives n its corrosive to alum engines and parts. Disstilled water isnt.

 

I understand using distilled water, that's always been a best practice for me, but I am just trying to figure out what happens if the fluid is to slick, and what is meant by the term slick. If the water pump is driven by an outside source, it doesn't seem like there would be anything to slip?