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Hi guys and gals,
Driving my R today, get onto the motorway and as picking up speed my oil temp starts to climb. It normally won't go above 80 degrees so u can imagine my shock at it hitting 110 in this weather!!!!! at the same time, my engine temp started to climb and I had a serious lack of power!!! Stopped for 10 minutes, and then drove off again. Engine temp reported fine, power was fine and she took off although the oil temp was higher than normal......
Got home (only 5 mins away) with engine temp still reading normal, oil hot, but with no power problems, she was pullin like a mad one, if you didn't no the oil temp shouldn't b that high u wouldn't have noticed any prob. Anyway, I get home to find that although engine temp guage reads normal the coolant is bubbling away and steam is coming from the reservoir although no coolant is overflowing. Only guage reading wierd is oil temp. I check coolant levels, and oil levels which are all fine even after cooling down.......
Any ideas???? Im thinking either coolant block / airlock, oil cooler failure, or worse case head......!!! although I wouldn't expect to have full power after leaving it to cool for a bit if it was the head........ im stumped..... Gonna try to drain, flush and replace coolant tomoz..... any other ideas??? HELP!!!!
Matt
Driving my R today, get onto the motorway and as picking up speed my oil temp starts to climb. It normally won't go above 80 degrees so u can imagine my shock at it hitting 110 in this weather!!!!! at the same time, my engine temp started to climb and I had a serious lack of power!!! Stopped for 10 minutes, and then drove off again. Engine temp reported fine, power was fine and she took off although the oil temp was higher than normal......
Got home (only 5 mins away) with engine temp still reading normal, oil hot, but with no power problems, she was pullin like a mad one, if you didn't no the oil temp shouldn't b that high u wouldn't have noticed any prob. Anyway, I get home to find that although engine temp guage reads normal the coolant is bubbling away and steam is coming from the reservoir although no coolant is overflowing. Only guage reading wierd is oil temp. I check coolant levels, and oil levels which are all fine even after cooling down.......
Any ideas???? Im thinking either coolant block / airlock, oil cooler failure, or worse case head......!!! although I wouldn't expect to have full power after leaving it to cool for a bit if it was the head........ im stumped..... Gonna try to drain, flush and replace coolant tomoz..... any other ideas??? HELP!!!!
Matt