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Canadian Daves JustKDX
Overflow bottle spews
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[QUOTE="Red_Chili, post: 1011224, member: 65383"] Maybe this is common, maybe it points to a problem that is common, maybe I'm just 'lucky'. If I fill my overflow bottle to the upper line with 50/50 antifreeze, it seems I dribble coolant pretty constantly. Bad for the wildlife and a little worrisome. The bottle will go nearly empty. It seems to be via the overflow/breather hose for the bottle. This seems to be pretty common. But if I just fill it to the BOTTOM line it STILL goes down. Never had a bike do this, and mind you, I ride an XR650R (aka 'Teakettle'). Bike runs great, in fact, the Gnarly Desert reeeeeeeallly woke the dang thing up. Went around the block for a jetting check (recent snow means no off-road for a while around here) and either somebody stole something that weighs around 40 pounds from my front end, or there's a few more ponies stretching their legs and lifting it when I crack the throttle. :aj: Got back to the garage and I had a dribble of coolant. STREET hooligans fer pities sake! More info: new piston with maybe 10 hours, new gaskets (Cometic hg/base gasket), no evidence of losing coolant in the motor, low hours overall on the bike, runs strong as stated, overflow was empty when I bought the bike. The bottle is not 'overflowing' exactly, it just loses coolant, never rises above where I filled it, just goes down. Coolant level in the rad is nominal, so that's not where it's going. Dribbled coolant external on the lower cases. Cool temps, not particularly aggressively ridden - yet. Hmmmm... Re-route the overflow tube higher? I expect I might want some reserve coolant come summer. [/QUOTE]
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