• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Out and About (Terra, Strada)

Hey Glengemen, your profile doesn't say where you're from, and neither do your pics. Can you post the approxomate location. That's quite striking scenery.
 
Went out today for a decent run.

Had to fill up with gas...
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Then off to the lake
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Yep, off to them hill in the distance...Strada doing remarkably well on the gravel. Just fan issue, time for the aux spal fan.
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Then I tried to catch a ride back...
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A very good day for a ride. Weather was perfect. Even with the street tires, didn't get sideways today at all. Just a nice leisurely pace taking in the sights. The Strada seems to have a softer suspension and being lowered and smaller wheels has a nice planted feel to it and easy to maneuver.
 
Terra has already 47.000 km we change temperature air sensor to avoid stops. i have tried fuel mileage.. last has been 14l up to 383,6km . i only notice more vibes. no even changed engine distribution chain. i do not know when i have to changed.. do you?
 

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Start with the simple stuff. Check the drive chain for kinks, go over the bike for loose bolts, check the wheel bearings.
 
Little Sunday tootle around Melbourne's East
And yes, it's a public road...at least it was one in the '70s-'80s

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Good ride today. Two totally different rides, both fun. Not a lick of trouble, both running perfect. Just need to add the extra fan on each before summer hits. IMG_20170409_135802902s.jpgIMG_20170409_133325969s.jpg
 
mag00 said:
Good ride today. Two totally different rides, both fun. Not a lick of trouble, both running perfect. Just need to add the extra fan on each before summer hits. View attachment 78163View attachment 78164
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IMHO a second fan is not necessary.
We are running several TR650s here in Philippines with ambient air temperatures up to 40c and even as high as 55c in city traffic.
None of the bikes has a second fan, but we all have the thermostat delete to ensure 100% radiator efficiency.
We do not have any overheating problems to necessitate fitting of a second fan.
 
Mark_H said:
IMHO a second fan is not necessary.
We are running several TR650s here in Philippines with ambient air temperatures up to 40c and even as high as 55c in city traffic.
None of the bikes has a second fan, but we all have the thermostat delete to ensure 100% radiator efficiency.
We do not have any overheating problems to necessitate fitting of a second fan.
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The thermostat is for keeping the engine at a constant temp, the extra fan will keep the radiator coolant at a lower temp than what the engine/thermostat requires. Thus, when thermostat gets warm enough to flow, the radiator coolant is lower temp to quench the heat.

I have checked with my 911, and the fan does not kick on until 103º C. How is the thermostat to keep the engine under boiling temp if the coolant is already past boiling.

The temp gauge should be constant once warmed up. It is a factory issue, which can only be remedied by an aux fan or switch which bypasses ecu control. T-stat delete is not needed if the radiator is cooling down the liquids within, and that won't happen sitting in traffic with no air movement or until the fan kicks on at 103º C which is past boiling.

If you are running without some sort of thermostat, you are damaging the engine, maybe only a little, but damaging none the less.

In a moderate climate that does not see cold weather, you may not have the issues as those who drive at freezing or near freezing temps without a T-stat.

To my knowledge there is not any passenger vehicle (liquid cooled) that is manufactured without a thermostat. Do the math. And it is not just about emissions either. Every car I have owned, even pre smog had a thermostat.

It has to do with metallurgy and expansion.
 
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