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need coolant
Its time to change my coolant and I remember seeing something about the color of the coolant, seems like I had to put the same color in. Well my coolant looks orange so does anybody know where to get it and how much I need? Thanks
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Orange?? Not good. Somebody screwed up. Shouldn't it be green or yellow? What year? You might be able to use the Gold coolant and not have to add FW15 to it every 15000. That is what I did. Have it flushed throughly and then flushed again. Then blow it out and use distilled water and the Gold coolant
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Originally Posted by Vijay
I had similar question last week see link .
If have details/procedures (with photos) of how to drain the old coolant and fill in the new coolant let me know too.
If have details/procedures (with photos) of how to drain the old coolant and fill in the new coolant let me know too.
i also have a year 2000 and with 200,000 miles on it i will only put in the low silicate green antifreeze. if i got the truck with less miles i would consider switching to the gold or an elc but with that many miles on it im not going to switch. if you do use the green coolant make sure you add the sca to it
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Color means nothing. Chrysler's orange coolant is the same as Ford's gold (Zerex G05) but not the same as GM's orange dexcool. Since you don't know for sure what kind of coolant you currently have, you should do a thorough flush of the system, then refill with whatever you want. I personally started with green low silicate coolant, got tired of monitoring sca's and switched to G05 for 70,000 miles. Just flushed last weekend and refilled with Peak's Global Final Charge, which is supposed to be no maintainence for 3 years, 300,000 miles, or 6000 hours.
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I don't know about the wal-mart part, but Peak Global Final Charge is maintainence free, yes. Cat ec-1 rated coolant is really what I was looking for, Peak just happened to be what I found.
It's also kind of a cherry orangish-red colored.
It's also kind of a cherry orangish-red colored.
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Originally Posted by Tenn01PSD350
Cool, so that final charge stuff ya can buy at Wally needs no additives right?
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Aklim. I also have a '03 Mountaineer which has the orange coolant. Even the owner's manual just refers to green or yellow. Maybe someone had an extra bottle of food coloring??? Who knows? Carroll
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Found this article . Very helpful...
If you have green color coolant, every time you replace it, you have to make sure that it has 50% green coolant and 50% distilled water. If you have yellow coolant just add as it is. Do not mix yellow and green. Now I need to figure out how to drain the coolant…any idea?
If you have green color coolant, every time you replace it, you have to make sure that it has 50% green coolant and 50% distilled water. If you have yellow coolant just add as it is. Do not mix yellow and green. Now I need to figure out how to drain the coolant…any idea?