Engine over heating
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Engine over heating
I do a lot of commuting in NYC, and I am concern about the engine over heating in the hot summer when I'm stuck in city traffic. Would the oil cooler help? I'm not sure exactly how it works but I'm assuming it provides more surface area to cool the oil.
I had a a liquid cooled bike with a temp gauge and that bike almost over heated a few times last year.
I had a a liquid cooled bike with a temp gauge and that bike almost over heated a few times last year.
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RE: Engine over heating
NY,
Use sythetic oil, I use Harley Syn 3, and change it more often than recomended in your owner's manuel. I believe 5000 mi. intervels are recomended, you might want to change at 2500 or 1 month in July/August.
Look around, there are a lot of cop Harleys running around the city with no problems.
You mention your watercooled bike, let me point out that it has just so much coolent that keeps getting hotter and hotter. if you run out of the cooling medium,(air), for your Harley you will have a bigger problem than the bike over heating! ;-)
DC.
Use sythetic oil, I use Harley Syn 3, and change it more often than recomended in your owner's manuel. I believe 5000 mi. intervels are recomended, you might want to change at 2500 or 1 month in July/August.
Look around, there are a lot of cop Harleys running around the city with no problems.
You mention your watercooled bike, let me point out that it has just so much coolent that keeps getting hotter and hotter. if you run out of the cooling medium,(air), for your Harley you will have a bigger problem than the bike over heating! ;-)
DC.
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RE: Engine over heating
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NY,
Use sythetic oil, I use Harley Syn 3, and change it more often than recomended in your owner's manuel. I believe 5000 mi. intervels are recomended, you might want to change at 2500 or 1 month in July/August.
Look around, there are a lot of cop Harleys running around the city with no problems.
You mention your watercooled bike, let me point out that it has just so much coolent that keeps getting hotter and hotter. if you run out of the cooling medium,(air), for your Harley you will have a bigger problem than the bike over heating! ;-)
DC.
NY,
Use sythetic oil, I use Harley Syn 3, and change it more often than recomended in your owner's manuel. I believe 5000 mi. intervels are recomended, you might want to change at 2500 or 1 month in July/August.
Look around, there are a lot of cop Harleys running around the city with no problems.
You mention your watercooled bike, let me point out that it has just so much coolent that keeps getting hotter and hotter. if you run out of the cooling medium,(air), for your Harley you will have a bigger problem than the bike over heating! ;-)
DC.
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