coolant dripping from overflow

rexeriot · Post by **rexeriot** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:34 pm

Hi all. Was out on a fast ride today. Came back and noticed a couple of drips of coolant coming out of the overflow. It stopped as soon as the engine was off. Is it the thermostat on its way out ? I've had a thermostat go on another bike but on that occasion the coolant gushed out at the end of the ride. Your views are greatly appreciated. Thanks chaps.

markg · Post by **markg** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:59 pm

Worth a check as it happened to mine, the rubber grommit on the overflow pipe was pretty rotten and the overflow pipe dropped down in the coolant tank so that it was in the coolant and it blew coolant out when hot.

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:31 pm

Mine has a home made tank and its always dropped a bit out when I turned it off but fan kicks on as normal think it might just have a little too much in,
Busa fan switch failed and that was bubbling over on a ride out so bridged two wires over so fan ran all the time on way home,
Just run bike on tick over for a few mins until up to temp and see if fan kicks on if not then it's the fan switch, around 30 quid I think

Post by **Stig** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:38 pm

From memory a particular Subaru fan switch will kick the fan in a few degrees earlier. Check out a search.....the info is on the forum somewhere