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Originally Posted by jayhaitch
3RRL: I think your tractor needs Immodium 
My Massey 2310 manual recommends changing the regular green antifreeze yearly. It's actually hard to find regular green stuff around here, everyone sells the yellow long life product or orange Dex-Cool rated AF/C.
If heavy duty diesel rated antifreeze has the anticavitation package for wet sleeve engines, is there any harm in using it when regular green antifreeze is called for? Wasting a little extra money is a moot point at the price of the machine. Heavy duty antifreeze is more available here. Isn't this heavy duty stuff purple? Can I use this safely on my 2310? |
I don't recommend using Dex-Cool in a diesel (just bad personal experience). The purple stuff you saw was probably extended life coolant. Regular diesel antifreeze looks just like regular automotive antifreeze, green.
Test your cooling system with a DCA/SCA test strip and bring the additive level up using additive that can be purchased at any heavy truck dealer or NAPA store. NAPA's additive is called NAPA-COOL.
I could write a couple pages about cylinder cavitation but since it's been done on the web before I'll just post a link to a site that has a excellent description of what cylinder cavitation (liner pitting) is and how to prevent it.
Cavitation Article