Shell Ultra ELC Coolant

dasboot · Jun 3, 2016

Shell has a gold colored ELC coolant called Shell Ultra ELC.

I know a lot of you all have switch from the Ford VC7B Gold coolant to the red ELC.

Has anyone used this Gold Ultra?

co04cobra · Jun 3, 2016

Subbin in. I was reading up on the ultra a few days back.

SmokeyStroker · Jun 3, 2016

The Ultra is what I put in all my customers trucks when I do major repairs that requires complete drainage of the cooling system. I Iron flush the engine then add the ultra elc gold afterwards. So far for the last 2 years it has worked out really really well. No major color changes and it holds its chemical levels very well. I would say that half of my customers use the red elc and the other half use the gold elc. No real differences that I have seen yet. (The customers that run red also own semi fleets which is why they choose red, bc it is run in their macks and KW's, and we keep red in bulk).

Zmann · Jun 3, 2016

Looks good on Paper also

http://s07.static-shell.com/content...a/downloads/pdf/rotella-coolants-brochure.pdf
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suprdzlduty · Jun 6, 2016

Shell has always advertised well...Hopefully their coolant standard of quality is higher than their oil's standard.

TyCorr · Jun 6, 2016

Im not sure to date but most of the red is the same shti but different jugs. Chevron, texaco, zerex, cat, etc red elc is all the same. Not similar enough to interchange but its the same damn stuff.

co04cobra · Jun 9, 2016

TyCorr said:
Im not sure to date but most of the red is the same shti but different jugs. Chevron, texaco, zerex, cat, etc red elc is all the same. Not similar enough to interchange but its the same damn stuff.

From what I am reading on this coolant it is completely different then the red ELC.

But should be interchangeable for 7.3 to 6.4s.