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Posted by Bucko
 - July 12, 2013, 11:39:16 AM

I got back from a ride last night and happened to notice the coolant looked low so I removed the right hand side cover to discover the overflow bottle was completely empty.  What the ^&%$?  My experience over the years is that I often have to ad a bit of coolant after the bike has sat over the winter (I just got the bike out of storage last weekend) but this is the first time that the bottle was empty.  In any case, I filled the bottle to the full level, then checked this morning (after cooling overnight) and some of the fluid has been sucked back in to the cooling system as it should.

Just wondering if i need to go through the full burping process once the bottle has gone dry?  I usually don't get overly concerned about burping as the cooling system will generally self purge over a number of hot/cold cycles as long as the bottle is topped up and as long as there's minimal air in the system to begin with.

Still wondering where that coolant went though.  I don't smell anything odd in the exhaust and no sign of leaks. Oil Looks fine. ?????  I hope it's not being sucked into the cylinders.

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