Coolant best practices: When to check it and what to look for

Coolant and anti-freeze: there’s absolutely no difference between the two unless you’ve spent all winter unbalancing yours.
Engine coolant is one of the most neglected fluids on a tractor, mostly because unless there’s a leak it probably takes a really long time for it to cycle on your preventative maintenance schedule. Outside of pre-trip inspections, coolant generally gets a check seasonally, but that’s really not enough.
It may seem like, since temperatures are climbing, anti-freeze is less important, and the anti-freeze properties probably are less important, but its ability to cool the engine are going to get a little more important every day now that we’re in Spring and headed into the summer.
A good preventative maintenance schedule doesn’t relegate coolant maintenance to just a seasonal thing but if it’s your seasonal thing, then it’s time to get started. Chevron Lubricants Commercial Fleets Business Consultant Shelly Eckert joins the 10-44 this week and she wants to remind us all that there’s a lot more to a healthy coolant system than just the fluid.
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Contents of this video
00:00 10-44 intro
00:30 Coolant and anti-freeze
01:22 Checking the cooling system
02:43 Topping off coolant
05:24 Using the right coolant
06:43 Adding water to coolant
08:14 Refractometers and other coolant testing methods
09:37 Meaning of coolant color

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