Hi All,
Happy Holidays! Some background info...my bike is a 2008 ABS model, bought it new in Jan 2009, currently has 42,000 miles on the odometer (shameful, I know, but that's what getting married and making babies does to your riding life ), and it's never leaked a drop of coolant. I started noticing a couple of drops of coolant on the garage floor under my bike about 6 weeks ago. The weird thing is that I'll take the bike out for a 1-2 hour ride say on a Saturday morning and then the following Wednesday or Thursday I'll notice the coolant on the floor. For lack of time, I've been ignoring it but I finally had some time last Saturday to peel off all the plastic and clean everything up. I took it out for a one hour ride (without all the plastic) and then parked it. I watched it every day this week (morning and night) and nothing showed up. It was perfectly clean all week. This morning (Saturday), I went out and checked it and sure enough there was some coolant on the floor. It must have leaked overnight. That's 7 days from the last time I rode it. See the pics. The best I can tell is that it seems to be coming from the area I'm pointing to in the 3rd picture (to the right of where the reserve hose comes out of the engine near the bolt and crevice). I don't see signs of leakage anywhere higher than that but I could be wrong. I plan to clean it up again, ride it, then park it, and see what happens.
Any opinions? I find it weird that it doesn't leak until several days after I've ridden it. Does the water pump have a weep hole like cars do to warn you that it's about to fail? Can I put some pressure on the coolant system through the radiator to better pinpoint where the leak is coming from?
Happy Holidays! Some background info...my bike is a 2008 ABS model, bought it new in Jan 2009, currently has 42,000 miles on the odometer (shameful, I know, but that's what getting married and making babies does to your riding life ), and it's never leaked a drop of coolant. I started noticing a couple of drops of coolant on the garage floor under my bike about 6 weeks ago. The weird thing is that I'll take the bike out for a 1-2 hour ride say on a Saturday morning and then the following Wednesday or Thursday I'll notice the coolant on the floor. For lack of time, I've been ignoring it but I finally had some time last Saturday to peel off all the plastic and clean everything up. I took it out for a one hour ride (without all the plastic) and then parked it. I watched it every day this week (morning and night) and nothing showed up. It was perfectly clean all week. This morning (Saturday), I went out and checked it and sure enough there was some coolant on the floor. It must have leaked overnight. That's 7 days from the last time I rode it. See the pics. The best I can tell is that it seems to be coming from the area I'm pointing to in the 3rd picture (to the right of where the reserve hose comes out of the engine near the bolt and crevice). I don't see signs of leakage anywhere higher than that but I could be wrong. I plan to clean it up again, ride it, then park it, and see what happens.
Any opinions? I find it weird that it doesn't leak until several days after I've ridden it. Does the water pump have a weep hole like cars do to warn you that it's about to fail? Can I put some pressure on the coolant system through the radiator to better pinpoint where the leak is coming from?
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