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Williamscottrobertson
| Posted on Monday, June 04, 2018 - 12:26 am: |
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Does anyone know where (or even if) you can buy a spurgin oil cooler kit? |
Natexlh1000
| Posted on Monday, June 04, 2018 - 11:33 pm: |
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Well it is essentially a sporster engine. I think you would only have to be creative in the mounting. Are the spurgin the ones with the thermostat? |
Williamscottrobertson
| Posted on Monday, June 04, 2018 - 11:37 pm: |
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Yep, that’s the one. Like this one:
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Imadog
| Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 - 03:34 pm: |
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I just did a search... very nice looking unit and bike. http://www.as-hydraulic.com/spurgin-oil-cooler.htm l |
Williamscottrobertson
| Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 - 07:14 pm: |
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Yeah I inquired on the AShydrulic website a while back. No response. |
Gmaple
| Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2018 - 12:49 am: |
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That s1 is sweet |
Zac4mac
| Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2018 - 11:09 pm: |
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I think Lockhart still makes a cooler kit with a thermostat. They ARE proud of it tho. Z |
Hybridmomentspass
| Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2018 - 10:39 am: |
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Is thermostat necessary? |
Hootowl
| Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2018 - 10:42 am: |
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It is. You only want the cooler to operate if the oil is over a certain temperature. Cold oil is bad. |
Hybridmomentspass
| Posted on Tuesday, July 03, 2018 - 03:32 pm: |
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Do the stock XB units have a thermostat built in? |
Brother_in_buells
| Posted on Wednesday, July 04, 2018 - 05:53 pm: |
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Nope and not necessary because engine is closed in the frame |
Hybridmomentspass
| Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2018 - 08:10 am: |
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How does that make it different? |
Simond
| Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2018 - 12:16 pm: |
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Presumably lack of air flow around the engine. Makes you wonder whether a stock tube frame bike really benefits from an oil cooler. |
Lynrd
| Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2018 - 01:39 pm: |
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Generally I don't think oil coolers are necessary on a Sporty engine at all. Exceptions if you live in one of those parts of the world not intended for human habitation (The Gobi desert, Arizona) In other parts of the world suited for human habitation, if your bike is running so hot as to need a cooler, your timing and/or fuel mix is way off... But, we do love our farkles. Do be sure to install it properly, so as to not have it lose all your engine oild and they kill your motor, as was described in another thread here recently. |
Skntpig
| Posted on Friday, July 06, 2018 - 03:46 pm: |
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Funny thing is oil coolers only work while moving and you only need them when sitting still. |
Screamer
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 02:00 pm: |
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Had to look but I thought I had one...
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Lynrd
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 02:07 pm: |
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Looks like those things are made from unobtanium these days. |
Bluelightning
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 03:03 pm: |
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I've got the Jazz cooler on my x1, but I also have one of the last Eurocomponents fairings that was ever built, so trying to keep the oil cool with the lack of air around the motor. |
Williamscottrobertson
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 07:09 pm: |
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I like it more for the looks than for the purpose. 180 degrees is what we shoot for in piston aircraft. We put controllable baffle kits over the oil cooler for winter ops. Below 180 and the moisture doesn’t boil out and the oil looks like mud on the change. No dice on finding one for sale. |