how many of you had overheated your vectors?in warm weater and slow riding my sled got hot once.thanks for input
yammie3687
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My wifes vector overheated in marginal snow conditions. You can ad a rear heat exchanger that will help if you continue to have a problem. I also herd that in early model vectors in 05 had the wrong coolant mixture.
yamaman98
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overheated once in marginal snow conditions
MadMax
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Mine over heated one time.. Conditions were baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad..
48 degrees. verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry little snow.. I was in the back of the pack while moving at 15 mph for 4 miles.. The light came on and I freaked out.. Stopped and tossed some snow on the running boards to
cool it down.. Did that twice.. After getting back up to a normal speed everything was fine.. Has never done it again..2,200 miles on the machine now. MM.
48 degrees. verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry little snow.. I was in the back of the pack while moving at 15 mph for 4 miles.. The light came on and I freaked out.. Stopped and tossed some snow on the running boards to
cool it down.. Did that twice.. After getting back up to a normal speed everything was fine.. Has never done it again..2,200 miles on the machine now. MM.
Groomerdriver
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Add some of Redline's "Watter Wetter" to your cooling system. Enough people on enough sites have raved about it....I just put it in my Vector's cooling system.
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I only had an overheating problem once so never thought anythign of it as the conditions were mostly ice. But before I put the sled away I tested the coolant and it as off the chart, the highest number on the chart was 70% coolant and it was way past that. So I removed some, and now it is 60/40 as recommended. I would test that before spending any money on a extra heat exchanger.
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Never had an overheating problem on my 05 after 3100+ miles. Never drove much in 40+ degree weather either.
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Overheated my Warrior in warm, low snow, slow moving conditions - so I put a mountain cooler in it.... Haven't riden the girlfriend's new (new to use anyway) 05 vector, but for 80 bucks CDN, I figured the extra rear cooler is cheap insurance for the inevitable....
STORM-CHASER
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I used to overheat untill I thinned the coolent down to 50 50 mix it seemed to solve the problem, I also put on a temp gauge so I know when it might climb.
Len Todd
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Either ride on snow or throw some snow on the Running Boards. If I see a long stretch of Ice or road coming up, I load up the running board. This does not help the Hyfax one bit though.
anyone damaged your sled because of overheating? just curious. Max
First test of my digital water temp.
Slow trail (35-50): 172-176*F
Medium (50-65): 180-186*F
Fast (65-90): 188-196*F at this point the side fan goes on then water temp. go down to 182 before going back up.
Very Fast (above 90): the highest I saw was 202*F.
Then we did 4 miles on ice road with NO snow, the temp. when up.....At 213, the high temp. light when ON. After, the temp when up to 215..stay there a few minutes then when up to 216-217. All this was at 50mph.
I'm very happy with this gauge. Now I know exactly what going on with water temperature under the hood.
Next I will be installing a rear exchanger...if I can find one, seems everyone is out of stock for the next 2-3 weeks.
Seeya!
Slow trail (35-50): 172-176*F
Medium (50-65): 180-186*F
Fast (65-90): 188-196*F at this point the side fan goes on then water temp. go down to 182 before going back up.
Very Fast (above 90): the highest I saw was 202*F.
Then we did 4 miles on ice road with NO snow, the temp. when up.....At 213, the high temp. light when ON. After, the temp when up to 215..stay there a few minutes then when up to 216-217. All this was at 50mph.
I'm very happy with this gauge. Now I know exactly what going on with water temperature under the hood.
Next I will be installing a rear exchanger...if I can find one, seems everyone is out of stock for the next 2-3 weeks.
Seeya!
After running the rear heat exchanger for almost 1000 miles, here are my results:
In medium (50-65): 160-166*F
Fast (65-90): 168-182*
Very Fast (above 90): The highest I hit at 190*F
Also did the track test, want it to know if the cooling system would do the job for long LOAD. After 54 miles at 10k rpm showing 100 mph on speedo, the temperature raise up to 213. Had to slow down and waited out a while.
At that time it did not make sense why the temperature would sendenelly go up. A bit later I noticed the lost of the rubber from the inside wheels, so now I'm assuming the slides started to heat up and causing the engine to overheat.
In conclusion, the rear exchanger will reduce between 10-15 degrees and is a +++ option to have. The water temperature gauge help a lot managing your overheating situation when it happen. Because when the temperature light is on, you really don't have a clue if the tempearture is still climing or stabilising.
Good riding to all!
In medium (50-65): 160-166*F
Fast (65-90): 168-182*
Very Fast (above 90): The highest I hit at 190*F
Also did the track test, want it to know if the cooling system would do the job for long LOAD. After 54 miles at 10k rpm showing 100 mph on speedo, the temperature raise up to 213. Had to slow down and waited out a while.
At that time it did not make sense why the temperature would sendenelly go up. A bit later I noticed the lost of the rubber from the inside wheels, so now I'm assuming the slides started to heat up and causing the engine to overheat.
In conclusion, the rear exchanger will reduce between 10-15 degrees and is a +++ option to have. The water temperature gauge help a lot managing your overheating situation when it happen. Because when the temperature light is on, you really don't have a clue if the tempearture is still climing or stabilising.
Good riding to all!
