• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Loosing cooling liquid through the expansion tank

Kia-ora said:
Interesting read and relevant to what happened to me.

Shipped my bike(SWMRS650) to Oz for a ride and filled the reservoir about half full. Coolant was leaking out the reservoir but the radiator stayed full and eventually the reservoir level settled. After 3500kms the bike stopped and was getting water into the cylinder. This was the end of my trip on the bike. Are these engines prone to blowing head gaskets? and why? Generally a blown gasket is a symptom of something else but there was no warning or any visible external leaks.
Its now back in NZ and with the dealer who will be talking to SWM next week as I am claiming warranty.
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Hey Kia-ora, water went into the cylinder or into the oil. I've also had a water pump o-ring failure and had to refurbish the whole water pump and coolant was getting into my oil.
At this point my bike only starts a bit hard when engine cold and sometimes it drowns after 3-4 failed starts (this happened when engine warm also)
 
Soaime said:
Hey Kia-ora, water went into the cylinder or into the oil. I've also had a water pump o-ring failure and had to refurbish the whole water pump and coolant was getting into my oil.
At this point my bike only starts a bit hard when engine cold and sometimes it drowns after 3-4 failed starts (this happened when engine warm also)
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Definitely into the cylinder. Water blowing out spark plug hole.
 
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