Rkc left running for 10+ hours in garage!!!! Help
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Ok I'm new here and I'm sure I'm gonna get crap for this but here goes! My 2010 rkc is kept at my father inlaws house because I have no garage at my apartment and my father every few days starts our bikes. Mine is an 2010 road king and his is an 01 duece. Well he went out to start them and then went to grab food down the street. Knowing him he ended up stopping at a bar instead of coming back to the house and then ended up going to stay at his girlfirends for the night. my dumbass sister in-law came home at 2am and bikes we still running and she did nor said anything. Finally I got a call at 5am asking why my bike was running all night. Dumbass! All I know is she shut mine off after I went off on her and she said my father inlwaws was off with lights on. SOOO I'm curious what damage could have been done to my bike. It fires right up now and nothing seems wrong but I did notice a very funny smell coming from engine area like fumes I guess. But it doesn't smell Like gas. And noticed white risidue ontop of throtle body but could have been there I'm not sure. Any advice on what to do would really be appreciated and sorry such a long post
I want to add that its the middle of winter and its a detached garage that had door open. So it was cold out and cold in garage
I want to add that its the middle of winter and its a detached garage that had door open. So it was cold out and cold in garage
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There's so much wrong with this thread I want to believe it's a joke. But then I remember the time I left my suburban running outside my house to charge up a battery and completely forgot about it!
As others have said, park your bike properly for the winter, put a tender on the battery, and don't start it until spring. In your case, for sure change your oil first thing in the spring...it's probably full of water from condensation from all the cold starts. Then again, it did idle for ten hours and probably boiled off all the water from the oil....
An air cooled engine doesn't effectively cool unless there is air flow over the cylinder fins. A stationary engine isn't going to cool properly. Even a three hp lawnmower with a Briggs and Stratton engine has a cooling fan. Have you ever noticed the huge fans that are blowing air on bikes as they are being dynoed?
All that said, I've read that Harley tests their engines by letting them idle for hours in hot desert heat.
As others have said, park your bike properly for the winter, put a tender on the battery, and don't start it until spring. In your case, for sure change your oil first thing in the spring...it's probably full of water from condensation from all the cold starts. Then again, it did idle for ten hours and probably boiled off all the water from the oil....
An air cooled engine doesn't effectively cool unless there is air flow over the cylinder fins. A stationary engine isn't going to cool properly. Even a three hp lawnmower with a Briggs and Stratton engine has a cooling fan. Have you ever noticed the huge fans that are blowing air on bikes as they are being dynoed?
All that said, I've read that Harley tests their engines by letting them idle for hours in hot desert heat.
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