Silicone implants?

[Suntan Sid]

More often than not, there's an ad at the bottom of the forum page for silicone hoses.
If you go to their website they make various claims about their product.
One such claim is that using their hoses will reduce the coolant temperature in your bike.
Now for most of you this is probably not an issue, however for me it is.
My DRZ400E has no cooling fan, and if I ride it in the summer, here in Cyprus, it invariably start to boil the water if left idling even for 30 seconds.
(I Should point out that the temperature here rarely drops below 30c in the summer, so I don't think there is a problem with the bike).
So has anyone used Mr Samco's products, do they do what they say on the tin?

See what I did there, lured you in with innuendo, bored you to death, and not a mammary in sight.

[robocog]

IME its not going to drop temps by any considerable ammount

I suspect that they claim this based on people will be flushing their cooling system when fitting- similar to the braided brake lines claims?
(where in all probability just flushing old fluid and re-bleeding would also give much better brakes)

I have not done the silicone hose on a motorbike, but have on a car
Its a bit unqualified though as I also changed engines to a different one at that time so cannot give you a direct back to back comparison(and needed the new hoses to fit the new engine- otherwise I would have re-used the old uns)

May be worth looking at running "water wetter" ...but only if your 100% sure that the rest of the cooling system is working as it should (it probably wont make any difference for example if your real issue is a sludged up system or poor circulation due to water impeller being shafted or whatever)

Regards
Rob
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[Suntan Sid]

AFAIK, the"E" runs notoriously hot, I've changed the coolant, there didn't appear to be a problem.

I've been looking at the water wetter route and might give that a go as well.

Anything that can lower the water temp would be good.

For the "E" the Samco hoses were less than 80 notes, I think, given the bike is a 2000 I might just treat it to a new set of hoses anyway.

Over on "Thumpertalk" there are plenty of folk fitting computer cooling fans to their "E's", so I think I'm not only one in hot water, as it were.
I'll give you an example, last winter, i'd done a bit of work on the bike, packed it in when it started to get dark. Had my tea then went out to start her up, started first time, let her idle for a bit.
I couldn't for the life of me work out were the red light was coming from, it's got no dash or warning lights. It wasn't until I walked round the front of the bike and saw the exhaust header pipe glowing orange!

Apparently this is normal on the "E" it relies on motion induced air cooling as well as the water system!

[pinkyfloyd]

How can you post a thread with that title and not have any tits?

Sheesh!
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[robocog]

Sure the timing and fuel mix is ok?

I have only really seen glowing headers after some serious thrashing or badly adjusted setups (OK so not on your bike as I'm a newby when it comes to 2 wheels)

Glowing headers at idle just doesn't sound right to me

I could be wrong though

Worth putting an inline temp gauge or using an IR probe to see what the water temps are /really/ doing?
At least it'll give you an idea how much drop your looking for, if even needed, It could be a waste of dosh if the water wetter is only going to loose a couple of degrees

Have you checked the thermostat is working OK?
(and circulation is getting in and out of the rad....IR probe or even hand on inlet and exit on rad would give tha game away)

A fan on the rad I would have thought would be a cheaper and more sucessful fix than silicone hoses (and cheaper)

Regards
Rob
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[stinkwheel]

I'd suggest fitting a bigger radiator off something else, or an oil cooler.

A fan would help too. Although I'd probably be using a motorbike fan, not a PC one. You can just rig it up with a switch to turn it on and off.
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