klamityboy wrote:While I am at it, is there anything else that should be refreshed? I am thinking gaskets on the rad filler cap, temp sensor, o-ring on thermostat cover, hose to overflow bottle. Anything else?

The bike is my daily ride so having it off the road for a few weeks is not an option. My boss has this unreasonable idea that I should be at work Monday to Friday! lol!

Also, as I have an RT, even moving the tank to the side to access the rad filler is a minor PITA as fairing bits get in the way. So I would like to do this once and then not again until next year. 

92KK K100LT 193214 wrote:

klamityboy wrote:While I am at it, is there anything else that should be refreshed? I am thinking gaskets on the rad filler cap, temp sensor, o-ring on thermostat cover, hose to overflow bottle. Anything else?

The bike is my daily ride so having it off the road for a few weeks is not an option. My boss has this unreasonable idea that I should be at work Monday to Friday! lol!

Also, as I have an RT, even moving the tank to the side to access the rad filler is a minor PITA as fairing bits get in the way. So I would like to do this once and then not again until next year. 

Have a look at my post no 5 above. I agree, its a PITA but I was able to do the LT in less than 15 minutes with the modification. Use butterfly nuts for the storage boxes....But on the LT I could lift the fuel tank clear without taking off the fairing bits. However you do need them off on the right hand side to remove the baffles to access the filler cap.

RicK G wrote:I wouldn't be advertising that you are using orange coolant there in the south maybe it would be better left for those in the six counties.

klamityboy wrote:Recently, I have experienced more than normal heat on short rides. 

92KK K100LT 193214 wrote:

RicK G wrote:I wouldn't be advertising that you are using orange coolant there in the south maybe it would be better left for those in the six counties.

Ha funny. Our friends in the six counties are the best we have and we wouldn't be without them. History is funny. I spent 12th July 1981 in Belfast in what was at the time a very hot political climate, in the comapny of an America backpacker who had been warned off Ireland. He was really openminded and we met some interesting people who wished July 12th was a family day out like Patricks Day down south where everyone went into festival mode and like it had been in very early years. It will happen again like that, where it is a family day out. There are always two sides to a story but it can be best when one can turn to a new page while respecting the old one.

Our 'Norn Iron' outing is one of our favourites of the year and if you took away 'orange' you would take away Dunlop tyres, Bushmills Whiskey, the Mourne Drive not to mention aeons of wonderful history.

My grandfathers family all came from there and it is one of the most scenic places.

One of our lads had an off up there last year and the hospitality was incredible, from minding his bike for a month, to offers of dinner from a family just sitting down to eat, to offers of a bed for a night or two. All from complete strangers and from Comberjohn. All of this was with no questions asked from anyone and at the same time there was no doubting where we had come from.

Our own Comberjohn is a great personality that we would not be without and his humour and wit is enjoyed by all of us.

If you come to visit, to skip the 'orange' is like going to see the Grand Canyon in the dark.

And so my orange coolant will be staying in. Might make some green with envy. Or white with shock. Others might go red at the thought, or white in the face bit hopefully not blue under the collar!!

I love this forum.

My father in law was a staunch republican Irish but not so blind that he couldn't see all 4 sides of the north- south problems. I realize that it isn't any where near as clear cut as many in the media would have you believe. 
He used to call the six counties the occupied territory.