So, I overheated my 510 last week while navigating an extremely rough boulder trail with a clutch that was out of oil. Tank was boiling, which happens often, but then it spewed the molten lava all over my riding boot and some got between the boot and knee pad, burning the crap out of my calf! Do I have the wrong overflow bottle cap? If not, what idiot designed this system? There's no nipple for a drain line to route it away from you, just a hole in the cap. Does anyone make a better aftermarket setup?
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
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Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
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Coolant overflow bottle cap
- Thread starter Jetmech25
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OlderHuskyRider
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I think it's designed like that so you know if it's so hot that it spews out the overflow, didn't work for me, one time I emptied my rads thru that hole in the overflow bottle cap and I never realized it.
You could cut the valve stem out of an old inner tube, remove the inner valve stem, drill a hole in the stock bottle cap to fit the valve stem, use the 2 nuts on the valve stem to secure the stem to the cap, then attach a hose to the valve stem and route it to the ground.
You could cut the valve stem out of an old inner tube, remove the inner valve stem, drill a hole in the stock bottle cap to fit the valve stem, use the 2 nuts on the valve stem to secure the stem to the cap, then attach a hose to the valve stem and route it to the ground.