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HOT or not?

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How hot do you think various parts of a motorcycle get? I got an indoor/outdoor thermometer and clock unit to go on my bike. So I'm wondering what useful or at least amusing place I can put the remote sensor. I think the engine block gets too hot, it would melt the plastic sensor housing and the thermometer only goes to 158 degrees F anyway. The crankcase probably also gets too hot on a long ride, but perhaps I could put it under the oil sump, which will be only as hot as the oil. But how hot might the oil get?

What might you do with such a thing?

Michael
 
If your really curious, you can put the sensor on the bottom of the fuel tank, and get temp of the new gas when you refill! :twisted:
 
shaftzuki said:
Man - this is a tough crowd!! :( :? 8)
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Hey, at least no one's actually suggested the rectal probe. Adam got pretty close, though.

Swanny said:
Put it back in the kitchen.
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No, this is actually an automotive model.

Still thinking...

Michael
 
Temperature probes

Temperature probes

No, seriously now!
The upper limit of only 158 F really makes it rather useless in this kind of application as the 158F would be pegged soon if oil temp is the intended thing to be monitored. Perhaps one probe could be still air and the other could be wind chill.....experiment & see if it works....use the car to try it!
Rick.......
 
The probe will not measure wind chill, as 20 mph air is the same temp as 2 mph air, it just cools object down faster but not lower. about all you could do was to just use one side of it and live with it. :twisted:
 
The oil will get hotter than your limit. Ambient air temp is always interesting, or the temp of air going in the motor. The temp under someone nice sitting on the pillion seat would also be ok.
 
Put the temp probe inside you helmet. The guage will tell you if you're riding as a hothead or not. :-) :-)

Earl
 
earlfor said:
Put the temp probe inside you helmet. The guage will tell you if you're riding as a hothead or not. :-) :-)

Earl
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Hahaha! that's funny! I could tell if I'm really supposed to be cold or not. :wink:

As for the temp of the lovely girl behind me, that won't quite work, because 1) I have no lovely girl :( 2) The bike isn't really big enough for two. So the only time I ride two up is when DEW-the-goober runs out of gas. :lol:
 
I clamped a digital probe in the vents on the back of the #1 cylinder. It commonly ran up to 325. Got higher at the stop lights. Glad I run synthetic oil. I'm not sure regular oil does well at 300 plus temps.
 
I've owned five GS shafties since 1986 -- four 850's and now my 1100GK -- and ridden well over 200,000 miles on them total. The last thing I've worried about is any of them overheating. Yes, they run hot, but they run and run and run, so I don't worry about it. I just ride them. No oil cooler on any of them. Summers do get hot in Maryland and the midAtlantic. So what?

Don't worry, be happy. Just ride the GS and worry less about how hot it gets. As long as it starts, idles, accelerates, and holds speed -- consistently and reliably -- then you have nothing to worry about. Just change the oil and filter regularly and keep track of its level.

Nick
 
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