Overheating

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matthew
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My Bike: zxr400

Overheating

Post by matthew »

My race bike has started to overheat really bad
Water shooting out into the catch bottle(witch fills rite up)
Then over my leg :-(
Temp gos off the scale
Any help at all will be great thanks
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CaNsA
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My Bike: ZX6R F1
Location: Liverpool

Re: Overheating

Post by CaNsA »

Head Gasket has popped, pressurizing the cooling system, forcing the coolant out the overflow.
matthew
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Re: Overheating

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if the head gasket had gone would the bike not be smoking ??
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CaNsA
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Re: Overheating

Post by CaNsA »

Nopes.

Mine popped, no smoke.
The HG can just pop enough to let gas into the cooling system.

It doesnt always look like this when the HG lets go.
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