Which coolant
 

First off I gotta say thanks to the members on here for all of the assistance in the last few weeks since I purchased the truck! You have lead me to some well informed decisions and upgrades and it is becoming a whole new animal!
Yesterday I did the banjo bolts and the blue spring mod.

However I didn't pick up any coolant to top off the tank from the residual loss when I removed the rad hose. I have know idea which type to get. It looked almost greenish in color.

Is there a generic kind I. Can top off with that I won't have to worry about cross contamination and gelling ?

Probably only lost less than a half gallon, once I figure this out it's test drive time with the new sct tuner and my custom written tunes

You might just want to add distilled water for now. That will get you going today. I just flushed mine and used motorcraft gold.

I just run orange antifreeze. I get it at dodge dealer n think its mopar brand but idk if u can run it in ford

if you dont know if it can be used in a ford than why did you post it in the 6.0 section?:argh::c:

I wasnt paying attention.... you should be able to run regular green thats wgat we have in my parents 6.0

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Well just stating what we run in ours that truck don't get anything fancy like my dodge does

You can, if you do a completely flush, if you mix green and the ford gold you WILL gel everything up and clog the oil cooler.

I would just go ahead, do a full flush and get some ELC cooalnt, CAT makes some, Rotella makes some too, most big rig shops carry the ELC stuff.

You really need to know what is in there, because mixing coolant will cause some serious headaches. It needs a FULL flush too, not just a drain and refill with some other type.

I don't even want to think of what this coolant would do to a 6.0...

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PO did a "flush" by draining the radiator and dumping some all makes all models green into the radiator but never flushed out the gold, it was sooo nasty and had the consistency of melting jello.

ELC (meeting Cat EC-1, Navistar B-1, Cummins 14603) are very popular with the 7.3 and the 6.0 crowd. I am running Zerex G-05 (same thing as Mopar Red/Pink and Ford Gold, along with others, not an ELC). In a 6.0 I would only run gold or an ELC, depending on what the green is, it might be 2-EHA based (like most ELCs are) or it could be conventional which relies heavily on silicates (G-05 does as well but not as much), which can become unsuspended overtime or if the coolant is overheated and WILL clog the oil cooler. I coolant filter is a pretty solid idea in a 6.0.

Agreed, coolant filter is a must.

FWIW, I haven't seen an ELC that meets Ford's spec for coolant, though a ton of guys use it now. I believe the Nitrites were all below the needed level.

Regardless of what is used, proper maintenance is key as well!

I believe that is cause of the primary anti-cavitation inhibitors in G-05 coolants are the nitrites, while ELCs use carboxylate based inhibitors (similar to Dex-Cool). But regardless, proper maintenance is far more important than what name is on the bottle IMHO. I could not agree with you more.:c:

Flush it and stick with motorcraft Gold!