ssr384
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- Messages
- 3
- Age
- 42
- Location
- Colorado
- Country
- USA
- Years Snowmobiling
- 2
- Snowmobile
- 2001 RMK
2014 Summit 800
Morning all
I just recently purchased a 2001 RMK for my fiance, and after a few days of running great, we had a problem with it out the other day. It started draining all of its coolant, draining out from the bottom near the exhaust. Thankfully I think I caught it in the process of happening and we killed the sled and towed it out. When I attempted to refill the coolant reservoir, the just continued to drain out, even with the engine off.
I have the area it is pooling in and draining circled in the pictures. I don't see a leak anywhere apparent when looking from the top. I'm fairly mechanically inclined and love fixing a problem, just a little lost as to where it could be coming from. I will also try and get all of the snow inside the engine bay out today and take some better pictures.
From the bottom of the coolant reservoir, the line Ts and I think from looking at the diagrams, I think one side goes down to the water pump on the engine, the other to the heat exchanger that sits right in front of the track. My first thought was to pull the bottom panel off and see if the leak was apparent looking from the bottom, but I will be doing this outside at 11000ft in Colorado in the middle of January, so I was hoping someone here might have some advice or tips for the quickest way to track down the coolant leak.
Thanks a bunch in advanced, I'm only a couple of years into sledding and the support and help I've already received in the sledding community is unreal.
Cheers
Sean
I just recently purchased a 2001 RMK for my fiance, and after a few days of running great, we had a problem with it out the other day. It started draining all of its coolant, draining out from the bottom near the exhaust. Thankfully I think I caught it in the process of happening and we killed the sled and towed it out. When I attempted to refill the coolant reservoir, the just continued to drain out, even with the engine off.
I have the area it is pooling in and draining circled in the pictures. I don't see a leak anywhere apparent when looking from the top. I'm fairly mechanically inclined and love fixing a problem, just a little lost as to where it could be coming from. I will also try and get all of the snow inside the engine bay out today and take some better pictures.
From the bottom of the coolant reservoir, the line Ts and I think from looking at the diagrams, I think one side goes down to the water pump on the engine, the other to the heat exchanger that sits right in front of the track. My first thought was to pull the bottom panel off and see if the leak was apparent looking from the bottom, but I will be doing this outside at 11000ft in Colorado in the middle of January, so I was hoping someone here might have some advice or tips for the quickest way to track down the coolant leak.
Thanks a bunch in advanced, I'm only a couple of years into sledding and the support and help I've already received in the sledding community is unreal.
Cheers
Sean