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Great scenery! Is that the Dandenongs Glitch? Got to make more of what's on our doorstep.
This one was a bit further east, around Noojee area. Loads of good spots around..
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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Great scenery! Is that the Dandenongs Glitch? Got to make more of what's on our doorstep.
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
It's amazing how familiar the countryside out of Tuscon looks to me. My photo taken about 35 miles north of my home in Melbourne Australia. I had the same eerie feeling of familiarity riding down Hwy 49 in California a couple of years ago.
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.
It's amazing how familiar the countryside out of Tuscon looks to me. My photo taken about 35 miles north of my home in Melbourne Australia. I had the same eerie feeling of familiarity riding down Hwy 49 in California a couple of years ago.
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Question, have you ever driven the "longest shortcut" across the island? Is there enough gas along the way or do you have to really pack mule it?
Question, have you ever driven the "longest shortcut" across the island? Is there enough gas along the way or do you have to really pack mule it?
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.
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.
Summing up, I do not know of one owner who has performed a Thermostat Delete on a TR650 (by whatever method) and caused any damage or not been happy with the improvement in cooling.
A quick ride in my local forest this afternoon. I had the EWS error for a few months until the earth wire fix got published. Very happy to have the 650 back in action. Now who is going to be the first to comment on my front tire...
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I'll Bite.
Is it a rear tire?
Are you running G650GS spoke rims or custom?
This is the out and about thread. But if you insist on being a jackass, maybe if you understood how an engine worked you would not have had to open up so many radiators.
Put a fan on it, or program the ecu to turn the stock one on at the correct temp. Once the fan kicks on, the temp drops indicating that the radiator and thermostat work just fine. Nothing wrong with the cooling system if burped out proper.
Anybody who had done any amount of engine repair understands what the thermostat purpose is for. Anyone with any knowledge of physics understands metal expansion and differing expansion rates of different metals and materials and thicknesses and understands that the constant temps are healthy for an engine.
If you wish to bandaid up bikes, that is your choice, if you wish to fix em proper, do the delete and use an inline thermostat. Then add an aux fan if you do slow trail work or get stuck in traffic alot.
And FYI, do a bit of research here and find out who actually was involved in the t-delete development before you go shooting you mouth of anymore.You might actually find out I understand this system quite well.
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/another-one-bites-the-dust.45824/page-4#post-449961