What did you do to your Raptor today? v2

[Krandall]

that sucks ballz... can't SPAL be held liable at all?

[Alkire193]

that sucks ballz... can't SPAL be held liable at all?

Well im 90% sure that the fan is still good but its not wired to anything that it should be to operate. I think the directions were just  up. SPAL cant be at fault because the fan is not designed for the Raptor 700, its designed to be a performance fan for anything, they just added a raptor mount bracket to it. You have to splice to install it, its not plug and play. The first ride it just surged on and off and on and off as the bike overheated. It draws too many amps ( I think thats right) so the system cant carry what is needed to run the fan. The rewire was to use higher gauge wire routed to the headlight relay (if memory serves) so when my headlights are on the fan is always running. Stupid? Yes. Better than the bike overheating when I ride? O yea. If it worked.

[Peelz]

yikes. that is crap-tastic

[Kamakazi]

why didnt you run a seperate relay and have the thermal switch in the rad (i think thats where it is) trigger it on and off?  Unless your thermal switch isnt working    Using the Headlight relay is just a dumb idea, and if you made a relay harness you could easily add a light to come on when the fan is on, so you dont have to stop the bike crawl underneath to see if the fan is turning or not.  I could be persuaded to build such a harness......... if you dont have the skillz

[Peelz]

PM Alkire. for the spark plug mod. no biggie.

[Alkire193]

PM Alkire. for the spark plug mod. no biggie.

Got it thank you!

[Alkire193]

why didnt you run a seperate relay and have the thermal switch in the rad (i think thats where it is) trigger it on and off?  Unless your thermal switch isnt working    Using the Headlight relay is just a dumb idea, and if you made a relay harness you could easily add a light to come on when the fan is on, so you dont have to stop the bike crawl underneath to see if the fan is turning or not.  I could be persuaded to build such a harness......... if you dont have the skillz

DL700 is running around here, it was his HOW TO. Like I said, I cant remember it all that well now but the reason the headlight relay was used is because you can get the fan to work on a switch. I guess wiring in a new relay would be a lot more work and this was supposed to simplify it. He and other SPAL fan owners have the same issue. When it goes to turn on it just surges and never reaches full speed before it shuts off for a few seconds then comes back up. I tossed that at the Joka, it was going to be apart of my winter rebuild to rewire it properly however since Kev is handling everything I wanted to do personally, hes got it taken care of.

[XC_Raptor700R]

Rode the crap out of it for some exercise and suspension and tire testing. X-Rex's rock !!!

[Krandall]

Just ordered my 105mm Rings and the new head gasket

can't wait to get everything back together. I'm getting really antsy!!!

[shrimpy21]

Got my Lonestar Axcalibar MX axle today and installed  It looks awesome and was a piece of cake to fit.Just waiting for my Bopp +2 LT big ground clearence arms,dual gasser and ASV pro holiday pack to be sent now.Just wainting on Jim at Motowoz to custom colour my shocks 
Here's the axle



No comments about the burn in the carpet PEELS    ,its the carpet in my shed 

[Krandall]

Looks awesome shrimpster!!

Any idea yet as to when you should see your shocks?

[shrimpy21]

Looks awesome shrimpster!!

Any idea yet as to when you should see your shocks?

I got a email back from Jim yesterday and he said the shocks should be anoized this week,he's going to watch the process as then he can decided when to have the parts taken out, as the longer they are left in, the darker the colour gets.He's had to use a new guy for andoizing my shocks,as his usual guy couldnt get the right colour  thats why its taking so long

[Peelz]

very cool shrimps.

I actually like the carpet.

[dabigbratj]

looks good

[Peelz]

looks good

who said you can post in here?