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How Hot is Hot?

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Where would you install an oil temp gauge on these bikes? I had one lying around, an old style capillary tube one with the big probe that I tried to install in one of the oil cooler lines, but the probe was too big to get into the small fittings, and I eventually gave up. I tried to put it in place of the oil drain plug as well, but it was too long to fit there also.

Maybe a newer digital gauge would have a smaller sensor? I'm kinda paranoid about how hot this thing gets when idling in traffic. It never starts to run crappy, but it feels like I'm sitting on a furnace.
 
AOD said:
----- yet in 1983 there was no synthetic oil and these GS engines ran fine on conventional at temps well up to 270F...without oil coolers.

Even if you stick with synthetic oil and no oil cooler...today's oil far excedes 1980's oil and you're engine will most likely be fine!

~Adam
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Au Contrare, mo fo, Mobil 1 was available in the late seventies, Amsoil long before that.
I tried both in my '77 550 when it was almost new, in 1978 or 1979.
 
82 750 at 320 degrees too!

82 750 at 320 degrees too!

so glad I found this thread. So mine with 42k miles running in typical south florida heat in the summer, seems to end up at the 320 degree mark also. is it regional temps, running lean, an inaccurate gauge? I am running 10/40 conventional so first I am switching to synthentic. There's some schools of thought acrosss this thread and while I want to be safe, I also don't want to waste money on repairs. Today i ran for 3 hours at or near the 320 mark; would i have shut down or stalled as a result? I didn't but I want to do the right repairs with everyone's help!

Any other thoughts?

Thanks folks!

:D
 
mret430 said:
so glad I found this thread. So mine with 42k miles running in typical south florida heat in the summer, seems to end up at the 320 degree mark also. is it regional temps, running lean, an inaccurate gauge? I am running 10/40 conventional so first I am switching to synthentic. There's some schools of thought acrosss this thread and while I want to be safe, I also don't want to waste money on repairs. Today i ran for 3 hours at or near the 320 mark; would i have shut down or stalled as a result? I didn't but I want to do the right repairs with everyone's help!

Any other thoughts?

Thanks folks!

:D
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320F = 160C that is pretty darn HOT, if that wasn't sitting in stop and go traffic I would really start looking into that. Does the Oil Cooler have flow? What color are the plugs?
Definetly put in a thicker oil, 20W50 dino or 15W40 synthetic.
The oil light doesn't come one?
 
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