• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

antifreeze question ?

Derek Sipple

Derek Sipple

Husqvarna
B Class
I got a 2011 sms 630 and I'm wondering how much coolent is supposed to be in the reservoir? And what kind can I put in there ?
 
It's a spill over/burp reservoir...when hot some coolant will burp into it and then it'll get sucked back into the system upon cooling. That said it doesn't hurt to leave a little in it to lessen the likelihood of the tank cracking when hot coolant hits it.
 
If it were me I would put some water in the tank, so that when the hot liquid goes into the over flow it lessens the chance of damaging that reservoir.
 
I filled mine up to about 1/3. Its really hard to see the level. Ideally you just need a bit in there when its cold, enough to cover the end of the hose. Cam.
 
This is assuming its a water based coolant, if its a waterless type you mustn't get water into the radiator.
 
Philthy said:
This is assuming its a water based coolant, if its a waterless type you mustn't get water into the radiator.
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Correct, but based on the wording of the initial post in this thread, I made the assumption that it would be a water based coolant.
Not really sure how often people use coolant that is not compatible with water.
 
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