Overheating problem
 

Hey guys and gals first post on the forum so Hi to everyone. didnt think this would be my first post be here goes. Had the XT for about 6 months with no problems at all, was riding home last night and i felt my leg burning, look down and blue liquid was pouring out down the side of the bike. pulled over in a cloud of smoke to see a hose had popped off the engine, which was my coolant i assume as my coolant bottle was empty when i checked.

So i reclamped the hose on with the supplied yamaha tools (came in handy for once) and rode 10 mile to get home, when i got home the temp light was NOT on but the rad fan was on.

Filled up the coolant bottle and thought everything would be ok, took it out for a ride and everything seemed fine so thought i had got off lucky, got to work this morning and rad fan was on again, still got plenty of coolant in the bottle but bike is getting very hot.

is there anything else i need to do / try, not had this bike long, so dont know all to much about it yet.

any help would be much appretiated

will try upload a pic of the pipe that popped off after work

Thanks
Dan

If you've lost coolant from the system you will need to fill up the radiator as well as the expansion tank. The expansion tank is lower than the radiator and topping this up will not refill the whole system and purge the air out of it. Fill rad to bottom of the filler neck with correct antifreeze mix.

Excellent, thank you for your very fast reply, will give this a go when i get home, hopefully it will cure the issue, i did think the rad might have been empty to, but was not sure.

Appreciate the response

Thanks

I've just had the same issue, I've filled the rad but the expansion tank is still empty. Do I need to fill this too or with the fluid circulate in?

Cheers.

Yes you do. Top it up between the level marks on a cold engine.

Awesome. Cheers!