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Offline kaw rider

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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2010, 06:33:30 PM »
a stock cap would push water at around 215 degrees and a 30psi cap would push water out at around 250 degrees. It doesn't take much to get one of these motors to run 215 degrees.
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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2010, 08:31:49 PM »
Cheers kaw rider I am going to order one of these 30 psi caps and the semco hoses but also I am still going to try and install a fan. My mate has a bike shop here where I live and he is looking into a fan that Tuck posted to see what they cost here. Also looking at trials bike fans on Ebay as some of my mates have trials bikes and waiting on a couple of them to get back to me with the dimmensions of the fans on their bikes
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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2010, 11:11:59 AM »
try an overflow bottle too, they are easy to build and only cost a couple bucks
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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2010, 11:37:59 PM »
What do you mean by an overflow bottle? I have heard of this but how does it work. I take it you place the over flow tube into a bottle but how does the water get back? or am I wrong in saying this.
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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2010, 01:56:00 AM »
Quote from: cbmoor on November 27, 2010, 11:37:59 PM
What do you mean by an overflow bottle? I have heard of this but how does it work. I take it you place the over flow tube into a bottle but how does the water get back? or am I wrong in saying this.

As the engine cools it draws enough vaccum to pull the coolant back into to the radiators. Just make sure the draw tube stays low into the catch bottle so it is always immersed in coolant. If the tube sucks any air the return process stops. Also the higher the coolant catch bottle mounting is in relation the the top of the radiator the better. Less head pressure to draw against.
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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2010, 04:36:47 AM »
look in the "riding tips and trips" there is a good explanation on how to build one, i used a rc plane gas tank it works good
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Offline Dutch-K5 Fan

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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2010, 05:50:35 AM »
Quote from: kawibunga on November 28, 2010, 04:36:47 AM
look in the "riding tips and trips" there is a good explanation on how to build one, i used a rc plane gas tank it works good

http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,5846.0.html

Here's the link.


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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2010, 07:55:53 AM »
i would definitely try the rc plane gas tank for the bottle its pretty trick
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Re: Extra cooling
« Reply #23 on: November 30, 2010, 09:22:38 AM »
Ok guys thanks again I will look into that and proberly make one cheers again it all helps
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