jeffgordons24
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So after many weeks of waiting, today was the day. I finished the powder coating of my engine covers, reinstalled them with new gaskets. Filled it up with fuel and oil and cranked it over!
A few key cycles to prime the fuel system and it fired right up.
Aside from a little (okay maybe a lot) of smoke likely caused by my greasy hands touching everything and forgetting to wipe the oil off my header from when I drained my oil, the bike was running pretty well. I could tell it was over fueling but figured maybe it had to run out the old gas that may have been still in the lines and maybe I needed to reload my PC3 map.
So I let it run a bit while I tidied up the shop and got ready to close it up, it couldn’t have been more than 15-20 mins and when I got back to the bike it was almost to the H on the temp gauge and the warning light was on. I panicked and shut it down before I could even listen for the fan but when I cycled the key back on the fan was on and I panicked even more because the gauge was topped out (now I remember my gauge is always topped out when the bike is not running).
I wasn’t with my bike when the person wrecked it but I do have my tip over sensor bypassed because it would sometimes screw up on hard launches and cause some stumbles so I can’t help but be concerned as to how long my bike could have been running while laying on its side.
It was pretty cool in the shop, couldn’t have been over 70 degeees so I can’t see it being due to ambient temp and in the 12 years I have had the bike I have only seen it overheat twice and both times were in stop and go traffic on 90-100 degree days to which I simply pulled over and let it cool down.
Any ideas why the bike could be overheating? I will run it some more tomorrow and monitor it but I am just heartbroken now and I hope there isn’t anything major going on.
A few key cycles to prime the fuel system and it fired right up.
Aside from a little (okay maybe a lot) of smoke likely caused by my greasy hands touching everything and forgetting to wipe the oil off my header from when I drained my oil, the bike was running pretty well. I could tell it was over fueling but figured maybe it had to run out the old gas that may have been still in the lines and maybe I needed to reload my PC3 map.
So I let it run a bit while I tidied up the shop and got ready to close it up, it couldn’t have been more than 15-20 mins and when I got back to the bike it was almost to the H on the temp gauge and the warning light was on. I panicked and shut it down before I could even listen for the fan but when I cycled the key back on the fan was on and I panicked even more because the gauge was topped out (now I remember my gauge is always topped out when the bike is not running).
I wasn’t with my bike when the person wrecked it but I do have my tip over sensor bypassed because it would sometimes screw up on hard launches and cause some stumbles so I can’t help but be concerned as to how long my bike could have been running while laying on its side.
It was pretty cool in the shop, couldn’t have been over 70 degeees so I can’t see it being due to ambient temp and in the 12 years I have had the bike I have only seen it overheat twice and both times were in stop and go traffic on 90-100 degree days to which I simply pulled over and let it cool down.
Any ideas why the bike could be overheating? I will run it some more tomorrow and monitor it but I am just heartbroken now and I hope there isn’t anything major going on.