Fuck liquid cooled motorcycles.
- Thread starter SONICJK
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They make a pill for that.
SONICJK
Reminds me of...me No, I'm sure of it. I hate him
I just spent most of the day working on that KLR instead of riding my other KLR. Then I went to ride dirtbikes with my girl and the damn ts250 decides to be a twat and not run, for no good reason.
I'm just tired of dealing with all the bullshit old bikes bring along. I'm going to clear some shit out and focus on fewer, nicer bikes.
I'm basically just ranting to myself, and frustrated with myself for having a whole bunch of project bikes with only a couple of decent running riding bikes.
Word to the wise, 12 motorcycles don't do anyone any good if only 3 are somewhat reliable.
I'm just tired of dealing with all the bullshit old bikes bring along. I'm going to clear some shit out and focus on fewer, nicer bikes.
I'm basically just ranting to myself, and frustrated with myself for having a whole bunch of project bikes with only a couple of decent running riding bikes.
Word to the wise, 12 motorcycles don't do anyone any good if only 3 are somewhat reliable.
stroker crazy
crazy as a fox
SONIC. said:
It's obvious what you need to do!
Get another twelve bikes and you will have the chance that six might be running at any one time …
Crazy
Bozz
Coast to Coast
I had a similar experience, so take from it what you will...
Buddy had a nice older Concourse that wouldn't stay cool.
"Bring it over!", I said with confidence. "It's probably the thermostat. No biggie"
That bike was in my garage for 6 months.
3 thermostats, 2 radiators, 2 full flushes, still having issues.
(with pulling and reinstalling the damn carbs and intake boots between every damn fix got REAL OLD REAL FAST)
Finally I'm convinced that it's the water jacket itself that is clogged and full of crap, so I get some Muratic Acid and slowly flush a bunch of CRUD out of the water jacket!
AFter that, it ran like a top and lived all day in the lower third of the gauge.
My theory is that somewhere along the line P.O. put stop leak in it and then topped it off with well water or some such.
The acid attacked the calcium deposits much faster than aluminum, so by being careful and not letting the acid sit in there for long periods we got some seriously gravel sized chunks of calcified crap to blow out of the water jacket.
Good Luck!
Buddy had a nice older Concourse that wouldn't stay cool.
"Bring it over!", I said with confidence. "It's probably the thermostat. No biggie"
That bike was in my garage for 6 months.
3 thermostats, 2 radiators, 2 full flushes, still having issues.
(with pulling and reinstalling the damn carbs and intake boots between every damn fix got REAL OLD REAL FAST)
Finally I'm convinced that it's the water jacket itself that is clogged and full of crap, so I get some Muratic Acid and slowly flush a bunch of CRUD out of the water jacket!
AFter that, it ran like a top and lived all day in the lower third of the gauge.
My theory is that somewhere along the line P.O. put stop leak in it and then topped it off with well water or some such.
The acid attacked the calcium deposits much faster than aluminum, so by being careful and not letting the acid sit in there for long periods we got some seriously gravel sized chunks of calcified crap to blow out of the water jacket.
Good Luck!
SONIC. said:
Fill it with ice cold water and you'll be just fine.
Maritime
Over 10,000 Posts
I feel your pain I just spent all day sat and sun climbing under old cars and fixing a pile of stupid little crap to make them ready to drive all the various family members to work. As for the KLR, get a flush kit and clean the crap out of the rad and water jackets. My GL used to run a bit hot and when I had to redo some shit that required the rad removed I did a fluch and fill, I used peak or prestone, followed the insturctions then rinsed the whole system with distilled water and re-filled the system with coolant, a lot of white crap came out and after that the bike ran way cooler, until 20K Km's later and the head gaskets shit the bed, then it just pissed coolant all over the road. I love my old bike LOL.
Why don't you just run it wide open until it blows up. Take it on some insane trails, run it through rivers and over some jumps. Just rag it out, call it a bitch whore and kick it to the curb.
deviant said:
Naw. You only do that to M20s. It didn't come from the factory overheating so its got to be fixable.
