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Coolant leak



I have noticed that I have a coolant leak on my ST. I saw some dried up
coolant on a radiator hose through the lower left fairing opening . I took
off the fairing and after letting the bike run for a while found the coolant
was dripping (at a pretty good rate) out of the junction with the radiator
overflow tube (right underneath the radiator cap). I'm not too much on
cooling systems but my assumption is that the overflow hose must be plugged
somewhere. Any ideas from someone on the list. I think this has been
happening since day one, I found a little coolant previously and wiped it
off, I was assuming that it was spilled at fillup. I also noticed that the
front mount for the overflow hose was not secured to the frame. It is a
plastic clip that fits into a hole somewhere on the inner frame surface. No
shop manual yet so I have not been able to verify where this goes.

Went for a 150 mile ride with Dee this morning, bike works just great. I
checked the fuel mileage for the first time since installing the new Triumph
can and got 42.09 MPG (USA). I thought that was pretty good since I seem to
be using the throttle a bit more since the can went on and most of the
mileage was in city type traffic.

Paul & Delores Steinbacher
97 Buell M2 Cyclone (At least its Red)
98 Suzuki Bandit S1200
99 Triumph Sprint ST(Red Wind)


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