Fairing Oil Temp. Gauge.Worth it?
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If you get the HD oil temp gauge, it's reasonably accurate.
Keep in mind:
a) It's an analog gauge
b) Which tic on the dial matches up to which number is not well defined.
Once you get over these issues, it's not bad. You'll soon figure out where the max temp should be on the gauge with normal riding.
I have both the dipstick gauge and the fairing mounted gauge. The temps seem to be within about 10 degrees of each other (keeping in mind that one is analog and one digital). One of these days I may see about switching to a digital gauge for the fairing.
I only got the fairing mounted gauge so that I could keep track of the temps in stop & go traffic.
{edit} One more thing: If you do change the Air Temp for the Oil Temp, I put the Voltmeter down in the Air Temp opening, and installed the Oil Temp where the Voltmeter had been--keeps the oil gauges in the same general location.
Keep in mind:
a) It's an analog gauge
b) Which tic on the dial matches up to which number is not well defined.
Once you get over these issues, it's not bad. You'll soon figure out where the max temp should be on the gauge with normal riding.
I have both the dipstick gauge and the fairing mounted gauge. The temps seem to be within about 10 degrees of each other (keeping in mind that one is analog and one digital). One of these days I may see about switching to a digital gauge for the fairing.
I only got the fairing mounted gauge so that I could keep track of the temps in stop & go traffic.
{edit} One more thing: If you do change the Air Temp for the Oil Temp, I put the Voltmeter down in the Air Temp opening, and installed the Oil Temp where the Voltmeter had been--keeps the oil gauges in the same general location.
Last edited by Mike_M; Jan 22, 2012 at 01:37 PM.
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From: Oxford, Nc
Yeah, they're cute. But I've never met anybody that ever shut his bike down to prevent excessive oil temp because his oil temp gauge indicated that his oil was hot.
At over 100,000 miles on mine running NC in all kinds of traffic I'm surely not going to run out and get one now.
Just a doodad to play with IMO with no real practical value. But then neither is much of the stuff we bolt on these things.
At over 100,000 miles on mine running NC in all kinds of traffic I'm surely not going to run out and get one now.
Just a doodad to play with IMO with no real practical value. But then neither is much of the stuff we bolt on these things.
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From: N.E. Wisconsin
I've never shut my bike down because the ambient air temp was too hot, but if I have something on that tells me if my bike might be a little too hot.....I might have to shut it down for a while at some local tavern.
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From: Roswell, GA
I'm not very concerned about the accuracy of the oil temp gauge; more concerned about the gauge indicating something abnormal--hasn't happened yet in the 3 years it's been on the bike.
+1 on relocating the voltmeter to have the oil temp gauge below the oil pressure gauge--very easy to do.
Carl
+1 on relocating the voltmeter to have the oil temp gauge below the oil pressure gauge--very easy to do.
Carl
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From: St. Bonifacius, MN
If you get the HD oil temp gauge, it's reasonably accurate.
Keep in mind:
a) It's an analog gauge
b) Which tic on the dial matches up to which number is not well defined.
Once you get over these issues, it's not bad. You'll soon figure out where the max temp should be on the gauge with normal riding.
I have both the dipstick gauge and the fairing mounted gauge. The temps seem to be within about 10 degrees of each other (keeping in mind that one is analog and one digital). One of these days I may see about switching to a digital gauge for the fairing.
I only got the fairing mounted gauge so that I could keep track of the temps in stop & go traffic.
{edit} One more thing: If you do change the Air Temp for the Oil Temp, I put the Voltmeter down in the Air Temp opening, and installed the Oil Temp where the Voltmeter had been--keeps the oil gauges in the same general location.
Keep in mind:
a) It's an analog gauge
b) Which tic on the dial matches up to which number is not well defined.
Once you get over these issues, it's not bad. You'll soon figure out where the max temp should be on the gauge with normal riding.
I have both the dipstick gauge and the fairing mounted gauge. The temps seem to be within about 10 degrees of each other (keeping in mind that one is analog and one digital). One of these days I may see about switching to a digital gauge for the fairing.
I only got the fairing mounted gauge so that I could keep track of the temps in stop & go traffic.
{edit} One more thing: If you do change the Air Temp for the Oil Temp, I put the Voltmeter down in the Air Temp opening, and installed the Oil Temp where the Voltmeter had been--keeps the oil gauges in the same general location.
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