Thermal Shock While Washing Motorcycle - Page 4

 

TOG@Toil wrote:

Oh, GAWD, now you're gonna have him panicking every time it rains.

 



I had a Honda CL100 - one day I rode it full throttle in the south Texas
heat for about 7 miles to the end of the road. The road didn't really "end",
it went into a river, and so did my CL100 with no stopping (I did slow down
first though). Looked down and there was my bike, laying on its side in
about 3 feet of water, the engine making clinking and clanking sounds in the
cold water. Lifted it out, dried the points and rode it back home. Of course
it did need an oil change, but it ran fine.

 



Prior to becoming environmentally sensitive, my family went Grayling
fishing by driving (4-wheel drives)down the creek bed to stop and fish
the holes.  My brother in law took his Suzuki 185 2-cycle on one
occasion.  The water got deep enough that he killed the engine, but it
ran with no apparent harm done after we got the water out.

Robert

 

Datesfat Chicks wrote:

Huge concern.  Before even one drop of water touches
your bike, you should give it a cooldown period of not
less than 100.52 hours in a controlled-temperature
environment (20 deg. C +/- 0.5, 35% RH +/- 3%), and then
verify that thermal equilibrium has been reached via a careful
inspection with an infrared thermometer.

God help you, of course, should you ever be riding and it
starts to rain, or you should ride through a puddle.

Bob M.

 


There fixed that for you Bob. 8^)