• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Antifreeze!

Just did the flush x4 and refill. Used Nulon blue Type A . All free from silicates phosphates etc.
Burp it with radiator cap off standing vertical and with a few side to side shakes and hose hitting. Cool ,repeat. Have something to do between heat and cooling. ( Paenang chichen curry was my choice)
When stable and cool fill to top of radiator cap. and fill in small amounts to overflow as it is heating. When hot you can shine a torch down overflow inlet to see level. The high low panel externally is useless . Even with blue coloured coolant.
Get the level near maximum when engine is hot so as not to draw in air as it cools. Took me all day in 10 mins episodes 2-3 hrs apart to flush to clear (distilled) water x4 and refill. Finally filled withfinal coolant the next morning.. Runs sweet now. Yes a bit OCD..but I can now sleep well>
 
bikehunter said:
Since my purchase of a Strada, there has been coolant dripping from the lower part of the expansion bottle, seems like it was coming out of the area where the caps fits.
So I added an 'O' ring into the cap and its a lot better but still after every ride there is a wet area where the pipe is attached to the bottle.
I can see that if the level needs to correct itself, the coolant can only come from the top of the cap but it then just dribbles down the res tank and around the fan etc which is nice:rolleyes: In 400 miles I have had coolant loss of 400 ml but since the 'O' ring fitted, only a drip.
My Dealer will be looking into this when she has her first service.
Never in 11 years has my GS1100 given me any trouble, curse the modern bike design!
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poovs said:
I am having the EXACT issue described here... new owner of bike (2 days). After my 1st 20 mile ride, noticed the pool of coolant on garage floor from sitting overnight. Appeared to be leaking from the overflow reservoir as described above (not sure if due to kinked hose in the rear, or the screw mount). Cleaned up to help identify the leak location. Took for 2nd ride (10 miles), and inspected in garage immediately... photos attached.

I'll have to pull it all apart to see if the screw used for mounting was too long? and penetrated the reservoir? or the kink in the line coming into the reservoir is the problem?
Anyone else have this problem and fix it?
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Sorry to revive an old thread, but has anyone found a fix for this? Mine drips in exactly the same way that poovs has pictured. It appears to come from the cap and drips out, yielding some white splotches on top of the radiator, around the fan shroud, valve cover and surrounding area.

My bike has just over 7k miles and doesn't lose a massive amount of coolant, but maybe like 50ml every 500 miles if I had to guess.

Before anyone suggests it, the water pump has already been replaced about 1k miles ago. I caught it weeping (slightly) when I bought the bike used from it's original owner.

Some people suggest there isn't a good seal between the overflow/expansion cap and the tank because of the plastic trim in between? Does some sort of o-ring help? Where did you find/size it? Or is it simply vaporizing from the top of the pinhole in the cap and leaking down, which sounds unfixable/inevitable.

Advice/suggestions would be appreciated!
 
Ok The cooling system is simple once you know.
Step 1, Have you replaced your cap? Mine was faulty from the factory. They can be intermittent also. =$10.
Step 2, Is there any air in the top tank? When cold. Where do you add the 50ml?
Step 3,
 
PaulC said:
Ok The cooling system is simple once you know.
Step 1, Have you replaced your cap? Mine was faulty from the factory. They can be intermittent also. =$10.
Step 2, Is there any air in the top tank? When cold. Where do you add the 50ml?
Step 3,
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Hi Paul, thanks for the response. Just to be clear, was it your coolant overflow reservoir/tank cap or your radiator cap which was faulty?

By air in the top tank, are you referring to the coolant overflow reservoir/tank? I mean it's at the full line so there would be air inside haha.
 
I bought this o-ring in the plumbing section of Home Depot for $2. Surprisingly it fits perfectly inside the little recess of the overflow tank cap. Feels good when tightening.

Thus far no drips after some hooning hooning, but I'll have to report back more definitively after some more miles.

For reference, I've attached the o-ring I bought from Home Depot. Hope it helps somebody!
 

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