Garemie wrote:
130 is definitely fine but I agree with CO. I don't run any Thermo switching or fans but I've never seen mine get above 130 or so. I have my water pump constantly running when the machine is on.
I have a 140° on / 125° off sensor in the head above the exhaust port, which seems to trigger just fine by itself once it comes up to temp. I'm going to swap the one in the radiator, bring it down from 170°/155° to 150°/135°. I want to keep the radiator fan off above the pump off trigger, otherwise I'd end up with the pump cycling while the fan ran constantly
bugeye59 wrote:
http://www.pilotodyssey.com/PO/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5051&p=40882&hilit=Ian#p40882
Excellent info, thank you sir! Happy belated Birthday btw
fully wrote:
I can't take credit for the red spring, methodical was the one that figured that one out..
as far as temp goes. when we are in the bush mine will sit at 160, I am using the same rad as CO, out of a Honda Civic, but I believe my pump might of been bad, I just bought a new one so we will see how it works out.i might reroute my plumbing as well, pump it to the cylinder first then up through the head then back to rad. currently have it going through my head then down to cylinder then up to rad.
Well thank you and Methodical for figuring out which one. I definitely like this setup, and plan to leave it alone save periodic maintenance.
I'd also go with cylinder on up to the head personally.
Now a question for ya'll. How would you go about pulling this thing back down? I'm thinking about just lashing it to one of the d-rings in my driveway and then put a jack on either side and lifting up. Anybody else have this beat to death?
Could this be the motivation to switch to power steering? Anybody know if I did that, if it would get things moved up a bit down the midline there? Are there power steering kits even still available?
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