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Old 01-18-2010, 12:37 AM
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Was riding and in 1st gear, decent RPM's - bike stalls and this yellow-ish liquid pours out of the top, near under the light kind of...

Any idea what it is?
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 06:46 AM
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My guess would be coolant.....
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Black 93 Fox
My guess would be coolant.....
It had a bit of white particles in it...

It wasn't clear yellow...

It's almost like it had salt mixed in with it?

I hope this doesn't sounds odd...I don't know too much about ATV specifics...I'm more of a GO-PED guy.
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 06:47 PM
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If you're riding a Blaster, it's air cooled isn't it? If it has Antifreeze, which it sounds like thats whats leaking, are the silver specks metal or tiny bubbles of air? If they are tiny bubbles of air I would guess a head gasket leak.
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by JP Lava
If you're riding a Blaster, it's air cooled isn't it? If it has Antifreeze, which it sounds like thats whats leaking, are the silver specks metal or tiny bubbles of air? If they are tiny bubbles of air I would guess a head gasket leak.
I'm 90% sure it was air bubbles.
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 07:52 PM
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i think you have everyones attension. what machine are you talking about, like the earlier response a blaster is air cooled. but it definetly sounds like coolant with air bubbles or grafite (stop leak) additive. can you give us more info...
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by danatack
i think you have everyones attension. what machine are you talking about, like the earlier response a blaster is air cooled. but it definetly sounds like coolant with air bubbles or grafite (stop leak) additive. can you give us more info...
What other info do you need?

I can't run it right now as it's raining outside.

It's this model
 
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I dont see a rad on it so its air cooled, Only thing i can think of is engine oil. Engine oil can come in the color your talking about, Be sure to use yamalube.
 
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Old 01-18-2010, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Thundare
I dont see a rad on it so its air cooled, Only thing i can think of is engine oil. Engine oil can come in the color your talking about, Be sure to use yamalube.
Before we rode them, my dad had me put some 4stroke oil and 2 other 1/8 empty bottles of oil in it.

You know that little 2 prong ****? We put it in there...
 
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You cant go and put any regular engine oil in a quad man, the engine oil doubles as the transmission fluid. You might have just burned up your ride bro.
 


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