[ERBEDS650]

Date Posted: Fri March 03, 2006 12:42 PM



ERBE,

This thread is connected to your last thread. You are complaining about your fan running all the time after the first ten minutes. Some of us who know what we are talking about are trying to help you solve your problem.

Of course you need a fan. Any liquid cooled machine needs a fan so you can stop and idle without overheating. The water pump pulls the water through the radiator. The air flows through the radiator and cools the water. The water pump sends that cooled water through the engines cooling ports. If you stop, you don't have cool air blowing through the radiator so when the temperature gets to a certain point (195 to 200 degrees usually) it triggers the fan to come on which sucks cool air through the radiator. When the temperature drops below about 195 degrees, the fan kicks off.

If your fan is running all the time, you are running over 200 degrees consistently. That isn't good for the life of your motor, so we want you to know what you are dealing with and have the knowledge to solve it.

Gary was simply saying based on your two threads, you have a problem that needs to be addressed before you buy upgrades that cost you extra money and that only bandaid the underlying cause.

The only exception to this is if you are talking about riding in 90 + degree weather as the only time you suffer from these symptoms. If that is the case than you should look at upgrades that will improve your stock cooling system to handle those kinds of temps.

You don't care for counsel, yet you are always asking questions. Why don't you save yourself a bunch of trouble and tell people upfront what advice you want them to give you then you can go do whatever you like?

Ron

Ron your making an assumption, and when you assume you........
I am not a newbie , I understand how a Four stroke and Two stroke watercooled engine works, Been riding and building machines for 20 plus years.
I Ask questions not because I have problems to solve, but to ask how well certain products will work, or to see how they had held up in the field.
I engineer process's for a living, there are ALWAYS room for improvements.

Mitch