I think I am pushing my bike to overheat.

1985 vf700f and I have no temp gauge

my bike is overheating when i push it. if I shift at 7k its fine but just now on the way to arbys ( 15 minutes ) with a passenger ( 150 lbs ) I was shifting at around 10k, it died on me as I came to a stop. It started right back up and I pulled into arbys. It sat for about 10 minutes and had no problem getting us home, but I was shifting at around 6k. The reason I am thinking it is overheating is I could feel the warmth of the coolant on my legs ( my overflow tank is under the seat ) Previosly I rode her very soft and shifted around 4-5k never had this problem. Any ideas?

 

check your thermostat if it's not that then your water pump is going bad.

 

my first thoughts exactly. will post results.

 

rpm has nothing to due with heat... runs at opt temp..coolant leaking?? did you have the oil leak problem?? if coolant is leaking then its not circulating flush out radiator put in new fluids fix the leak..................

 

No coolant leak. The oil leak is very minor... maybe a few drops every day. Ordered valve cover gaskets. And I had never ran it out of oil like I first thought. Gonna check the thermostat.

 

i had a overheating issue with mine it turned out that the radiator had a gunky build up in in, might be the problem good luck with her :thumbsup:

 

how did you determine that?

 

removed the thremo houseing apart and just fired the bike up and saw that the coolant was not flowing, oh and the colant flows left to right :thumbsup:

 

Sweet I will check that when I test my thermo

 

Replaced thermo, fan switch and temp sending unit. Now it doesnt overheat and I have a guage to make sure

 

hell yea man glad to hear it!!!

 

Thanks brotha. I was just reading your epic saga ( 7 page post ) about your bike. I am halfway through. Kick ass stuff going on there, I hope it has a happy ending. Ok back to reading.