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**jayprashanth** · 04-12-2010, 02:57 AM

Spit on your engine'e head when it is hot. If the spit vaporizes instantly, the engine is over the safe operating temperature or in other words overheating. Otherwise, you're good to go. If this is a little too nasty for you, try a couple of water droplets on your engine head, when hot.

Cheers,

Jay

**MavericK46** · 04-12-2010, 07:55 AM

Originally posted by jayprashanth View Post

Spit on your engine'e head when it is hot. If the spit vaporizes instantly, the engine is over the safe operating temperature or in other words overheating. Otherwise, you're good to go. If this is a little too nasty for you, try a couple of water droplets on your engine head, when hot.

Cheers,

Jay

Bingo !
Makes perfect sense and is an extremely easy method to verify overheating.

Other methods being:
- Watch out for an odour indicating burnt rubber/oil.
- Keep track of the engine oil level. Low oil levels are the prime cause of an engine seizure resulting from subsequent overheating.
- Sluggish throttle response and unexplained loss of power after a sustained period of triple-digit speeds. This would indicate an imminent seizure unless one stops the bike and allows it to cool down.

Cheers !

**princesirohi** · 04-12-2010, 11:42 AM

Originally posted by jayprashanth View Post

Spit on your engine'e head when it is hot. If the spit vaporizes instantly, the engine is over the safe operating temperature or in other words overheating. Otherwise, you're good to go. If this is a little too nasty for you, try a couple of water droplets on your engine head, when hot.

Cheers,

Jay

now thats a real cheap way to check engine temperature...... btw where did u learnt that trick......or is it your own patented technology

nowadays even my engine is running hotter...dont know if it had something to do with my wiring and coils modification for HID or just weather.

**Puneet1** · 04-12-2010, 12:23 PM

nowdays a thermometer kinda comes that can be installed in the oil filling caps's place and it can tell the temperature of engine oil . lemme try to get a pic

**ROCKRZ** · 04-12-2010, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by Puneet1 View Post

nowdays a thermometer kinda comes that can be installed in the oil filling caps's place and it can tell the temperature of engine oil . lemme try to get a pic

but thats oil temp checking na?????
u still dont get to know the exact engine temp

btw i liked the idea of spitting on the engine....

**jayprashanth** · 04-12-2010, 08:48 PM

Originally posted by princesirohi View Post

now thats a real cheap way to check engine temperature...... btw where did u learnt that trick......or is it your own patented technology

nowadays even my engine is running hotter...dont know if it had something to do with my wiring and coils modification for HID or just weather.

Top tuners use this method. If you want to really spend some money, you may do so by buying a thermal gun. The engine oil temperature might not accurately tell you how hot your engine is. I stick to the water droplet/spit on the head method as it is simple yet effective enough.

Cheers,

Jay

**ROCKRZ** · 04-12-2010, 09:08 PM

Originally posted by jayprashanth View Post

Top tuners use this method. If you want to really spend some money, you may do so by buying a thermal gun. The engine oil temperature might not accurately tell you how hot your engine is. I stick to the water droplet/spit on the head method as it is simple yet effective enough.

Cheers,

Jay

THERMAL GUN..... hmmmmmmm..

....
a good idea.... I could have tried this....

Is this something related to the infrared sensing thermometers???
i mean the non contact type?????

**jayprashanth** · 04-13-2010, 01:50 AM

Yeah, infrared non contact type.

**ROCKRZ** · 04-13-2010, 10:13 AM

I will be getting the RTD temperature guage by today evening..

i will post the temperatures recorded on my bike.....

**mithun** · 04-14-2010, 07:32 PM

One of the best ways to find out whether the engine is overheating is to look into the tachometer. If the engine RPM is above the normal levels, it shows that the engine is overheating.

(This is not the only way !)

**ROCKRZ** · 04-16-2010, 12:15 PM

Originally posted by jayprashanth View Post

Yeah, infrared non contact type.

GUYS, i guess i went in for the wrong type of guage.... the fitting of the guage on the cylinder head is very difficult so i had to ditch the measurement of the temp while the bike was moving....

also, even when it is not moving, the rtd does not have much contact with the fins fo the head so i guess i wil have to change the temperature measurement guage....

can anyone tell where in pune, i can get the infrared temperature guage??? or its approximate cost????

or if anyone knows any such guage ( which is being used on any other bike ), please let me know......

**jayprashanth** · 04-18-2010, 09:53 PM

Originally posted by ROCKRZ View Post

GUYS, i guess i went in for the wrong type of guage.... the fitting of the guage on the cylinder head is very difficult so i had to ditch the measurement of the temp while the bike was moving....

also, even when it is not moving, the rtd does not have much contact with the fins fo the head so i guess i wil have to change the temperature measurement guage....

can anyone tell where in pune, i can get the infrared temperature guage??? or its approximate cost????

or if anyone knows any such guage ( which is being used on any other bike ), please let me know......

In Pune, Chinmay Dangre(corepower performance, Nigdi) has one. He's a member here. PM him. He will help you out if you but I guess you need to take your bike to his workshop.

Cheers,

Jay

**dggopal** · 04-23-2010, 08:30 PM

P180 UG3 overheating

so I tried this splashing water technique today... after riding for around an hour in pretty heavy traffic I stopped the bike and splashed a handful of water on the engine head... it instantly bubbled and made a hissing sound... so I guess that means the test is positive and my bike is overheating? I know I sound like an idiot for asking that question but I took the bike to the service station twice already and they apparently changed some tappet settings and said the bike was fine, and also there is no overheating light or burning smell coming from the engine...the only thing that is alerting me to the problem is lot of heat on my right foot and leg... its like my foot is baking.

BTW I'm using motul 5100( 15w50) engine oil and i just checked the levels a few days ago... also the fuel tank remains cool during riding... there is smoke coming from the exhaust...

**Omi** · 04-24-2010, 08:59 PM

Originally posted by dggopal View Post

BTW I'm using motul 5100( 15w50) engine oil and i just checked the levels a few days ago... also the fuel tank remains cool during riding... there is smoke coming from the exhaust...

Is the oil level decreasing?
If so get the piston ring and kit checked asap from svc

**dggopal** · 04-24-2010, 09:02 PM

crap... sorry type

there is NO smoke coming from the exhaust! whoops... sorry bout that typo

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