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zappa916
yesterday
Greetings,
I'm in a situation where I have to take the 07 heritage softail to work for commute. I live in the inner city melbourne area and my journey consists of a lot of stop \ start bumper to bumper traffic. I estimate my average speed would be not much more than 10kmh. 7 km trip - 35 minutes.
So things are getting very hot under the seat and both thighs uncomfortably warm.
I'm looking at cost effective ways to dissipate some of that heat, to increase comfort and engine longevity.
Ive researched oil coolers, oil coolers + fans, and jim cooling fans but not sure any of that would offer best bang for buck. Especially as I'm looking in excess of $1500.
I'm thinking of getting a couple of computer server cabinet fans, cobbled up to see whether that offers any benefit before I splash $$$ on something permanent.
Unless there are some other options out there which I'm willing to entertain?
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paulybronco
yesterday
Does your bike have eitms...this deactivates the rear pot at idle.
Hilly
yesterday
You can tune a lot of heat out of them, they are pretty lean stock, but your description of the ride definitely puts it under pressure heat wise, I would still start with the tune though.
Retroman
yesterday
What type of tuning device does it have (if any?).
I do come across bikes as old as that are still 100% bone stock with no stage 1 tune often the only change is noisy slip on mufflers.
Best bang for the bucks "tuning" wise are XiED wires that go into the O2 sensor wires, plug and play. Find them on www.
Nightrider.com
Best bang for the bucks oil cooler wise is the heatsink type that push over the stock OEM oil filter (that's what I have used since 2008). They can be hard to find now tho' as the maker departed this earth. Called an "oil filter cooler collar".
Any plumbed in oil cooler system is way dearer, and at low speeds don't flow enough air. Heatsink type better there.
https://hdforums.com.au/Thread/677793/1
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B0nes
14 hours ago
Haven't tested yet due to all the bloody rain and now cleaning up from the Cyclone but I've just added these to the Night Train. Should see a drop in oil temp.
Jagg oil cooler
Flo oil filter
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Hilly
12 hours ago
Cooler will do what coolers do and the the flow filter should give the same results as the heat sink sleeve, be interested to see how much of a drop in oil temp you get in different situations.
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Retroman
8 hours ago
https://hdforums.com.au/Thread/476196/2?postid=588028#588028
https://hdforums.com.au/Thread/677793/1?postid=777900#777900
Threads from back in the day with good info'
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