Came out of work this evening and spotted a big puddle around my bike, worked out it was coolant and my reserve tank was empty along with some or all of the system!
Q1 if a pipe or Rad leaked would it draw out the reserve or if the reserve leaked would it draw out more from the system?
Next I spotted my ignition was on, neutral light and sidestand light etc. I do have a remote start on my alarm system but i did not use it today.
Petrol appeared possibly lower than expected as light came on whilst ticking over but it went off again, this was at around 90 miles since last fill, my always does about 120 +-5 miles before this notmally comes on (no one could have ridden it without totting up extra miles), our car park is also secure.
It is possible it might have remote stated I guess and ticked over for a number of hours, heated up and somehow peed out coolant but stopped itself siezing up or did sieze up enough under tickover to stall and then cooled off by the time i came out to run again.
I still had enough juice in the battery to start it up so maybe the above is true.
Dashed to Tesco, coolant and water put in reserve tank, short journey it was overheating with no sign of the fan coming on at just touching red.
Still had water, the reserve tank did not need anymore! so pulled of the hose to the thermostat and filled via that until water came out of the thermostat, gave a blow down the pipe and more came out of the thermostat, replaced hose and thought f%ck.
Q2 if water is not circulating, is the tempreature gauge a waste of time and would it not read the actual engine tempreature?
I plodded home watching the reading like a hawk, keeping revs as low as possible, clutching down every hill. However the temp reading remained around normal temp so I'm guessing it got itself flowing again, got home and level was down so have just topped up again.
No obvious leaks as of yet.
Spooky
