Zerex 1 Gallon Yellow 50/50 Coolant/Antifreeze.

The amount of coolant Your Ford Ranger will hold varies wildly depending on engine size and model year. The typical range is between 1.2 and 3.5 gallons, though it’s possible that some larger engines will require more.

Ford Ranger Fluids & Capacities

Antifreeze/Coolant Prestone 1 Gallon Yellow 50/50 Coolant/Antifreeze.

Green Antifreeze Green engine coolants are designed for use in older cars (think pre-2000), ones that contain a lot of steel and copper components in the cooling system.

There is green antifreeze and orange antifreeze. These days you can actually get yellow antifreeze, blue antifreeze, pink antifreeze and more. The fact is, mixing these liquids is not safe.

Yes, you can replace Dexcool with Prestone in the yellow bottle. There is very little difference between the two, besides the color (Prestone is greenish yellow).

Do not mix Dex-Cool with regular anti-freeze! Dex-Cool is a specially formulated GM coolant which will not mix with traditional coolants, and was used in various GM applications up through the 2004 model year.

Dex-Cool is the antifreeze recommended by General Motors, the company that makes Chevys, as the best antifreeze for their automobiles. It is an orange color, to truly differentiate it, and is an extended-life coolant, known to work up to 100,000 miles.

Pure antifreeze-coolant isn’t nearly as efficient at getting the heat out of the engine as is antifreeze-coolant and water. Running on pure antifreeze-coolant is pure folly and only will hasten your engine’s demise.

It’s perfectly backwards compatible if you want to do that. But you really don’t want to mix them, it’s not that good of an idea to mix them. If you want to have the correct coolant added for you, consider YourMechanic.