How do you drain the coolant fluid from a 05 RMK 900?

[Hjalti_GTO]

How do you drain the coolant fluid from a 05 RMK 900?
And do i have to use the polaris fluid ?

 

[sno_mo_racer]

How do you drain the coolant fluid from a 05 RMK 900?
And do i have to use the polaris fluid ?

There is a thread on it in the "how to" stickies at the top of the 900 page. Doesn't have to be polaris fluid. As long as it is a good quality and recommended antifreeze/water percentage.

 

[Newfusion900]

How do you drain the coolant fluid from a 05 RMK 900?
And do i have to use the polaris fluid ?

Buy a hand held fluid transfer pump and suck it out of the reservoir and then each hose. Works very well and doesn't make as big of a mess.

 

[Z-Man]

Buy a hand held fluid transfer pump and suck it out of the reservoir and then each hose. Works very well and doesn't make as big of a mess.

That's the way I do it, and if you want to get every bit out you can use a wet vac to suck the rest out that you can't get with the hand pump.

 

[Danbot]

Shop vac, takes about 1 minute!

 

[Mech Engr]

coolant

Yea the shop vac works great!! I believe its the connection to the Right Hand rail behind the can that you connect the vac to and suck it dry. As said above though, check the stickies and how to section.

John

 

[Danbot]

Any hose will work as far as I could tell, I usually just pulled the hose off the thermostat and stuck the end of the shop vac hose into it... within 20 seconds the system is completely dry

 

[05900]

Used high quality low silicate long life coolant ( toyota) with no problems no worries 4k plus miles. and it's red