1 Thermostat installation Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:50 pm
japuentes
Life time member
Hi there
During this year's bike maintenance, was time to replace the cooling mixture and check the system components, everything was ok but when reinstalling the thermostat found that the internal gasket (not the oring) had swelled and will not fit. The diameter had increased about 3mm, perhaps due to the cooling mixture components.
Searching on google found that by heating the rubber it would shrink, try with a heat gun and boiling water with no succes.
Finally baked it in the convection oven at 350ºF by around 30minutes (checking it every 5 not to burn it) and came out at original size without loosing flexibility nor distorted.
Hope this helps
Best regards
JA
During this year's bike maintenance, was time to replace the cooling mixture and check the system components, everything was ok but when reinstalling the thermostat found that the internal gasket (not the oring) had swelled and will not fit. The diameter had increased about 3mm, perhaps due to the cooling mixture components.
Searching on google found that by heating the rubber it would shrink, try with a heat gun and boiling water with no succes.
Finally baked it in the convection oven at 350ºF by around 30minutes (checking it every 5 not to burn it) and came out at original size without loosing flexibility nor distorted.
Hope this helps
Best regards
JA
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1988 K100RS SE/ABS