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Moved the snot rocket out the garage .
Then emptied the garage as it needed a clear out as it was getting full .
I filled my car up with things that I saved as they might come in handy !! Ready for the tip tomorrow .
I've got use of 2/3 of it now :-)
Now I have the room for the winter strip down again

Today I flushed the coolant system. So I fills up the rads with water & a bottle of flushing stuff, put some fuel in pressed the starter...Turned over fine wouldn't catch at all...Hmmm. So starting with the simple things...lift tank to check hoses & thought I wonder if the taps switched off, turned it round the other way lowered tank...Pressed starter...BRRRRMMM...

Run it up to temp making sure the fan kicked in...another but noticed that one of the plastic supports on the fan was broken...

So let it cool, emptied the flush out washed it through with clean H2O whipped off the rad & changed the fan over with a spare, boxed it back up filled with fresh coolant, run it up to temp again, no leaks, fan works fine...

Oil and filter change on the Storm and the red SP. Good for another few miles now

My fans never cut in, but then it's never overheated either.

SHould it come on if left to tickover? My temp gauge gets to about half way and it just stabilises, rads are both hot, but not overheated. Is there a normal fault for fan not working?

Loving all the talk of RC planes! Who said we need to grow up?! we need a plane thread ;)

lol, if this keeps up I will have to go flying again!

some days i wish i never sold all my gliders and radios .
i might get back into it in a few years but the bikes come first .

Defo! I've just stuck my DX8 on charge lol

My fans never cut in, but then it's never overheated either.

The fan should cut in about just after the half way mark. Just so your aware, there an electrical block connector on the front right rad which is the power for the fan. If removing and putting the fairings back on you have to be careful not to knock this plug.

(:-})

Cap 9 with a speccy module for me, cheapest way to get a good multi channel set at the time but keep the spectrum rx's. I have a bunch of foamies too and didn't want to pay £60 for a rx for each one!

To test your fan works just remove the single pin wire from the sensor on the back of the right hand side rad infront of your knee. If you short that to ground with the ignition on,the fan should come on. If it doesn't check the fuse in the black box just behind the battery.

AMCQ46 wrote:To test your fan works just remove the single pin wire from the sensor on the back of the right hand side rad infront of your knee. If you short that to ground with the ignition on,the fan should come on. If it doesn't check the fuse in the black box just behind the battery.

or sit on the victoria embankment for 2hrs whilst scratching your head waiting for the sun to rise.......

agentpineapple wrote:

AMCQ46 wrote:To test your fan works just remove the single pin wire from the sensor on the back of the right hand side rad infront of your knee. If you short that to ground with the ignition on,the fan should come on. If it doesn't check the fuse in the black box just behind the battery.

or sit on the victoria embankment for 2hrs whilst scratching your head waiting for the sun to rise.......

was a lovely morning for it tho, apart from the racket coming from the club across the river

agentpineapple wrote:

AMCQ46 wrote:To test your fan works just remove the single pin wire from the sensor on the back of the right hand side rad infront of your knee. If you short that to ground with the ignition on,the fan should come on. If it doesn't check the fuse in the black box just behind the battery.

or sit on the victoria embankment for 2hrs whilst scratching your head waiting for the sun to rise.......

We can all be wise in hindsight

we all had a good chat tho even with als wife