Nice pic's @MartytheMartian , Bikes looking good, I must say I prefer weekdays myself
Well once you get the Daytona you can be a Hornet amongst the wasps
As have I. Recommended by one of the car mechanic rags, as I recall.
I've not flushed and replaced the coolant on the Trip yet so it's def an upcoming job
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Hybrid Organic Acid Technology, it's all the rage these days! It's an ethylene glycol antifreeze and corrosion inhibitor suitable for all engines. Buy it on ebay as a concentrate and dilute 50/50 with distilled/deionised water. Around £8.00 for 2 litres. My 800 took 2.5 litres of mixed.I've not flushed and replaced the coolant on the Trip yet so it's def an upcoming job
WTF is HOAT?
(I know I could google and look clever but I prefer honest interaction. Or lazy
Now you're on the hook, and to save me bothering my very own arse researching, why is it a good thing and preferable to standard snake oil?
It's what Triumph have been using and recommending in their W/C bikes for years. I used it in both Tiger Sports and now this 800. Could be posh snake oil, but I'm no scientist or engineer so I just use what they say.
Given that it's not fucked up any of your bikes and for snake oil it's not expensive I'll follow that route when I do a flush and change. Cheers!
Hate that fugging cliche
I'm full of rage nowadays if that helps...
Just thought I'd stir some nostalgia by recycling an oldie..........
Farmers could use some of it.I'm full of rage nowadays if that helps...
I'm also full of something else entirely and I'm not sure that helps at all
That’s the point..... as engine blocks increasingly became alloy with sleeves the old glycol based stuff for iron blocks was no longer the best anti oxidant. HOAT is an organic acid that includes silicates as additives which inhibit alloy corrosion. HOAT has a service life of five years or 150,000 miles but if you say 2 yrs you sell 2.5 times as much! Often as not its water pump bearings and impellers that most benefit from more frequent changes.
