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Subject:Re: coolant temps
From:lbmelman
Date:Mon, 3 Jun 2002 06:04:38 -0700

These symptoms are described in the users manual.

I have had to put water directly into the expansion tank to alleviate
this problem and have to do so periodically so I think it is actually a
symptom of a more important problem.

Larry.

on or about 6/2/02 4:25 PM dart330@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:

>I drove a 200 mile round trip on the interstate today and twice as I was
>driving the coolant warning light came on and the temp needle immediately
>rose to the extreme high side. I turned off the engine and turned the key to
>on and watched the needle drop back down to normal and released the clutch
>and kept on driving. This happened twice and was beginning to worry me that
>the water pump was going out. Could that be the case? But since it is belt
>driven I would doubt it would start working again after the engine was shut
>off. Or is this probably an electrical problem? Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Nathan
>85 Westy
>
>
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