2010 TE 510 Overheating!

He's my riding bitch and owes me!

Guess we are even now.

Simple test is to start bike rad cap loose. When it comes up to temp take cap off look at the flow, not the vibes shaking the water give a few revs and see the increase in flow. Replace cap let it idle and get hot to the point the fan comes on. Now ride it going thru the gears by the time in 6th the fan shuts off. This tells me it's working and air flow thru the Rad's is a main factor.
Lean jetting,poor quality gasoline(nothing from a pump is worth a crap,restricted exhaust systems greatly effect this also by causing motor to run hotter.
Riding at altitude because air is rareified (thinner)= less heat transfer.
Adding another Rad behind rear # plate w/fan would fix almost all of the cronic overheaters reason 50% more coolant capacity and 50% more cooling rad surface area.
Or just mount another fan on LH rad.
Lots of factors involved, not everyone rides the same or in the same environment therefore needs are going to be different and solutions will be different also.
Later George

Oh great, now Dan will be testing his bike till the first snows hit.

Hey Nederland got 8" of hail yesterday. Sure looked like a winter storm to me!

All kidding aside I appreciate everyone's imput, every little bit of info I get helps me diagnose the problem or gives me future knowlege.

Thanks, Dan

UPDATE:

I could no longer wait around to diagnose the problem, so I cobbled together the coolant hoses w/ some auto-zone parts and got her running.

I have the PC-V and Autotune completely removed from the bike, Husky power-up kit installed and am running an FMF Q-4 exhaust w/ quiet insert.

Following the great one's advice (George Uptite) I started the bike w/ the rad cap off and observed the coolant flow into the right radiator. That's pretty cool to do, the volume of fluid flowing is pretty big and obvious.

After that I capped the radiator and allowed the bike to idle until the colling fan turned off. That took approximately 4-5 minutes. As soon as the fan came on I hopped on the bike and rode down the block. By the time I got to the end and was turning around the fan was off.

So....................This leads me to believe there is nothing wrong w/ the bike and that the issue is w/ the PC-V or Autotune

Next step will be to install the PC-V and Autotune and run one at a time to see what effect each one has on the bike.


As a side not I noticed that the bike seemed snappier than when it ran on the Power Commander