Actually, that's a very good straw... there are reports of those having issues.What's left? I'm stumped. Make sure the connection to the temp sensor (on the block? on the radiator?) is clean and tight. And yes, I'm grasping at straws.
Yes, I was going to chime in a few minutes ago with my [perhaps faulty] recollection that bad wiring to or corrosion on the ECT sensor terminal or the corresponding thermostat housing ground wire gives a faulty high temperature reading, not a low temperature reading.
The first sentence in Jim's first post: "Just went through the whole rigamarole..flush coolant blablabla.. New honda thermostat."What about the radiator it self, can be a bit clogged, need a flush.
I get the gorilla snot, love it. Use to put it heavy on one side of valve cover and could pull valve cover off and on all day run after run..Couple of tricks I've learned over the years doing thermostats. Gorilla Snot is your friend, they call it trim adhesive at the parts house, a little bead of that on the thermostat seal and on the thermostat, let it set up, put the thermostat in place, and no fally outy.....
Headliner adhesive: great for those pesky gaskets that sit on the vertical, both o ring type and paper, give the gasket and surface a spritz, let it set up, install the gasket, and bob's your uncle....
And the kicker: Aspirin. Especially useful for vehicles that always seem to have that air lock at the thermostat. Open the thermostat, pop an aspirin in the openening , two actually, opposite each other. Install the thermostat, fill and run. The aspirin will eventually dissolve, generally after the air has cleared, and no headaches.
My garage always has gorilla snot and headliner cement in it.....somewhere, I usually end up with 2 or 3 cans, because I never remember to put it back on the shelf. I'm so ashamed........My garage looks like several cars, a couple of motorcycles and a mower or two just exploded......
Permatex used to have a spray gasket adhesive - basically a thick contact cement, but no doubt the trim adhesive is a lot cheaper.I get the gorilla snot, love it. Use to put it heavy on one side of valve cover and could pull valve cover off and on all day run after run..
But aspirin? Lol
Agreed. Torque both bolts gradually and evenly and the O ring will seal just fine.I don't think this application calls for any adhesive. The O ring should do the job.
If I remember the inside of the housing correctly, it's not completely empty and there are a few protrusions that the thermostat could get snagged on of not inserted the right way. They might even be there to limit the amount the thermostat could rotate to keep the bleed hole in a close to the right position.So upon further investigation it seems that depending on how you spin the thermostat around there feels like the occasional interference with something inside the housing. This would certainly be not good if it's true. It's hard to tell what's going on back there though. With the bleed hole at 12:00 and some few degrees either way it's definitely clear.
The FI system in the ST isn't particularly sophisticated, but it's pretty good about complaining when it thinks something is wrong and the diagnostic procedures in the service manual are decent.I wish I could hook up my engine code reader scanner to this bike. It gives me a wealth of real time information. Well everything the engine computer see's anyway.
Your mpg sounds low. Was that what you were averaging before? Or did you simply ride all the way wide open?Yesterday morning it was 10f and roads all salty and icy. My driveway was ice.
Rained all night and this morning it's 41f on it's way up with clear washed roads. Think I will ride to work!
EDIT: Rode to work. All seemed normal. Average fuel consumption (no highway) 32mpg.