ant_mb
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Hey Guys,
For those of you that were at the Deals Gap meet this is old news, but for everyone else it isn't. About 30 miles into my planned trip to North Carolina my FZ overheats in traffic. Me and thatguyx pull over and try and diagnose the problem. After a quick look over we see the fan isn't coming on, allowing the bike to get hot when it sits at idle. No problem, it's probably a fuse. We pull the side pod off and sure enough the fuse was blown. I throw a new fuse in and try again, but no go. Pull the fuse again and it's blown for a second time. WTF!!! I now put fuse 3 in, and turn the key on. NOTHING... We take a closer look at the fan, and it won't spin. After a couple nudges a small rock falls to the ground. Ah HA, Now it will work. WRONG!!! It seems the rock allowed the motor to burn itself up.
So there we are sitting on the side of the interstate with another 700 miles to travel before night fall. I made the bold decision to and said F-it, nothing is keeping me from this trip. Traffic cleared up a little and we set off to NC. I monitored the temp closely for the next few hundred miles, and it never crept over 185 on the interstate.
I did a total of 2,170 without a working fan! Keep the bike moving and you won't need it.
I dropped it off at the dealer today, and it will be next week before they can even look at it. I'm FZ6 less for a couple weeks, and already dreading it. The upside is I still have 3 weeks left on my warrenty.
For those of you that were at the Deals Gap meet this is old news, but for everyone else it isn't. About 30 miles into my planned trip to North Carolina my FZ overheats in traffic. Me and thatguyx pull over and try and diagnose the problem. After a quick look over we see the fan isn't coming on, allowing the bike to get hot when it sits at idle. No problem, it's probably a fuse. We pull the side pod off and sure enough the fuse was blown. I throw a new fuse in and try again, but no go. Pull the fuse again and it's blown for a second time. WTF!!! I now put fuse 3 in, and turn the key on. NOTHING... We take a closer look at the fan, and it won't spin. After a couple nudges a small rock falls to the ground. Ah HA, Now it will work. WRONG!!! It seems the rock allowed the motor to burn itself up.
So there we are sitting on the side of the interstate with another 700 miles to travel before night fall. I made the bold decision to and said F-it, nothing is keeping me from this trip. Traffic cleared up a little and we set off to NC. I monitored the temp closely for the next few hundred miles, and it never crept over 185 on the interstate.
I did a total of 2,170 without a working fan! Keep the bike moving and you won't need it.
I dropped it off at the dealer today, and it will be next week before they can even look at it. I'm FZ6 less for a couple weeks, and already dreading it. The upside is I still have 3 weeks left on my warrenty.
