my fan is sticking the motor spins but the fan itself is off the thing that spins it, i also need to put this engine ice in before i lose it, a quick How-to walk thru of this would be fantastic i needs ta do it ASAP thanks

 

what do you need to do mang?
take off the radiator or what?

 

take the radiator off, and see what the deal is with the fan, then put the radiator back on and refill with engine ice so i can practice without exploding

 

you don't need to take the whole thing off. there's like a bolt on the bottom and one on top holding it on. for the top, one side is a bolt the other is just a mount. slide off the radiator, you'll have room to do your way with the fan.

as for using engine ice, perfect time for a flush/cleaning too!

pull off the hose at the radiator outlet or the water pump inlet, let old stuff drain out, stick in Distilled water and some white vinegar...will help eat up the scales and gunk left in the system. run that sucker to temp, ride it, etc...drain it out...run distilled through it to flush it out...like in the other thread...then put in the engince ice, burp, fill, burp, fill...wait...burp, fill, tada! all done mang!

 

so i just take the hose off the right side and drain, then leave it off, and pour distilled mixed with a lil vinegar into the radiator while its running? should i leave the hose off when i do this?

 

take hose off the left side of the bike...either from radiator or water pump to drain.
put hose back on.
refill with distilled and vinegar. bike is off all this time...

now start bike... rev it a few times...burps system and circulates the juice....let it run until 190 (cause at 180 tstat will open)...rev some...get bubbles out...pour more stuff in there...go for a short ride, return, let it cool...then drain out the juice.

now flush with distilled as you did in the previous step. make sure all stuff is out...no green, color, etc...

now fill with new stuff...and do the same as before...get all the bubbles out.

got it?

 

im sayin how the hell do i know the bubbles are gone lol man my squidly mechanic skills arent up to par yet

 

it's not perfect science...you'll know they are all gone when your bike doesn't overheat. you just don't want it getting trapped at the T-stat...cause that'll make it stay closed forever and ever.

that's why you rev it hard to burp it all out.

i must eat my lunch now...how disappointing...thought i grabbed a huge piece of pork chop for lunch...but now i see that i got a huge piece of bone!

 

well the fan blade just broke off of the bolt another stupid thing gone wrong[:@]