• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

wheres the temp sensor on sms 630 ??

Rear of the head, right under the throttle body. It's the brass colored fitting with a connector.
 
But is there a temp gauge as well?
I am always afraid that I am overheating in the summer in traffic.
The bike does get quite hot I find.

Has anybody fitted an external sensor and readout?
 
If it's running lean, it will run hotter.
If the fan works, but isn't coming on regularly, you're not all that hot.
 
Fan's on continuously. Maybe no surprise in stop and go city traffic and 90 degree heat.
I just wonder if the engine can handle this for a long time.
Dealer says I should simply switch her off at long traffic lights. Not sure I like that either.

But none of you ever had issues with overheating on your 630s?
 
igun said:
Fan's on continuously. Maybe no surprise in stop and go city traffic and 90 degree heat.
I just wonder if the engine can handle this for a long time.
Dealer says I should simply switch her off at long traffic lights. Not sure I like that either.

But none of you ever had issues with overheating on your 630s?
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What mods do you have? Like I said, if you're running lean, you're running hot.

My fan kicks in and out at long lights, not on constantly, even on 100deg days.

But I'm not in stop and go traffic for extended periods.
 
igun said:
Fan's on continuously. Maybe no surprise in stop and go city traffic and 90 degree heat.
I just wonder if the engine can handle this for a long time.
Dealer says I should simply switch her off at long traffic lights. Not sure I like that either.

But none of you ever had issues with overheating on your 630s?
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Mine would kick the fan in after a minute at lights.As i rode off it soon would turn off.Since i've added a bazzaz fuel controller and fresh coolant it doesn't do that any-more.The thing runs heaps better once the fuelling gets sorted.
 
I run a Trailtech Vapor dash with a temp gauge. It comes with a temp sensor that goes into the coolant pipe coming out of the head (tight fit).
I din't wan't to piggyback on the factory sensor in case it interfered with the mapping.
 
Sizzler - that is very cool. Was it complicated to install? Did you need any special tools or rigging?
I am not a huge fan of the Husky dash, and with even oil pressure alert etc - this seems a huge advantage.

RDTCU My mods are just the standard canister removal etc. by dealer and then he re-mapped it.
 
The temp-sensor is a solid bit of tube about 2" long that fits into a radiator hose by cutting a section out and clamping it in place. This is one shortcomming of the design, where the lead for the sensor is a bit short, so it limits where you can fit the fairly large sensor. I managed to get it into the hose between the head and radiator, but it was a struggle. You are probably better off extending the lead and finding a straight bit of hose to tap into, but I only thought of that after I had cut the hose
 
I'm a fan of the waterless coolants, Liquid Intelligence is the one I have in my Enduro bike. Having been on some slow tight rides in the tropics where the only bikes not blowing steam were using this stuff impressed me. Haven't got around to changing the stock coolant yet on the 630 and tight single track isn't the plan for this bike but ill go waterless anyway.

I haven't actually heard my fan come on yet, should it take more than a minute or two at a standstill? or maybe I should test it even works ?
 
Mine doesn't come on unless I'm sitting in traffic for a minute or two after it's already up to temp on a hot day.
 
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