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slyderx
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 Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:21 am Post subject: puff the magic dragon |
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after a 4 month layup guilt set in so I took the K for a spin and was impressed by intermittent wafts of smoke/steam rising from engine block up beside right hand pocket complete with nasty smell. Trusting that it was only a rodent being fricasseed i persisted and every now and then a noisome puff would rise. I suspect radiator coolant. The overflow tank is full and i believe the radiator cap is a dodgy type. I enjoyed the spin despite wondering at the beginning would I be cremated on the M8. If anyone can confirm or compare symtoms i'd be ecstatic. JC
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BMW_Mick
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Sounds like the rad cap to me. If there's no great loss from the header/overflow tank I can't think of anything else, and a K100RS I had some years ago did something similar which was down to a knackered rad cap.
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slyderx
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| BMW_Mick wrote: | | Sounds like the rad cap to me. If there's no great loss from the header/overflow tank I can't think of anything else, and a K100RS I had some years ago did something similar which was down to a knackered rad cap. |
Thanks Mick i may also have over filled it during last service.
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slyderx
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| slyderx wrote: | | BMW_Mick wrote: | | Sounds like the rad cap to me. If there's no great loss from the header/overflow tank I can't think of anything else, and a K100RS I had some years ago did something similar which was down to a knackered rad cap. |
Thanks Mick i may also have over filled it during last service. |
well a good long run seems to have de -puffed the radiator and as problems go it was quite minor to my sudden wobble that i got right through the bike frame .....hmmm could that be the rear wheel I never tightened up properly when i replaced the rear brake disc.....it was and I am now writing out one hundred times....tighten it or lose it.
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