horde wrote:being in ireland with the mega cold and snow in winter, i'd throw in coolant with antifreeze in it (debatable anyone?). If you can drink your tap water its good enough for an engine i reckon so long as its clear. Buy a bottle of concentrate from your local bike shop and mix it up to their spec's one litre at a time and add.

would have thought bleeding it would have been done by running it to operating temp without radiator cap on and giving it a few revs. shut it down with cap on let it cool down check radiator water level.

Thats what I'd do....
hope this helps champ

So is coolant poured into the radiator cap or the overflow bottle?
I had to check the pump one day and let the coolant out from the pipe feeding the pump. Caught all of the fluid in a clean bottle and poured it back to the overflow bottle (white on the left), did as the manual said open cap> start engine> warm up>bleep bleep> but no fluid is returning to the radiator or the pipes because the fluid in the overflow bottle is not getting lower… and is also seems not a lot of fluid is getting to the pump, so I stopped and came back to my computer don’t want to over heat the thing.
What you are saying is that after bleep turn off motor and put cap on? And wait?
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