Engine Temperature

[BradT]

Curious What temp does the oil get on a air cooled V-twin ?

 

How hot is too hot to run ?

 

Brad

[friesman]

Curious What temp does the oil get on a air cooled V-twin ?

 

How hot is too hot to run ?

 

Brad

 

On an air cooled vtwin I am thinking that its too hot to run when your underwear is making its own gravy.

 

Brian

[mraf]

On a air cooled v-twin the oil gets too hot to touch! Temporarily.

 

To hot to run is when your sneakers melt on the pavement!

 

Hope this helps.

[rlyons]

My Suzuki's oil gets up to 230 to 250 in hot weather.

[Scooter Bob]

I had a triple gauge set on the winshield of my old shovelhead when I headed west in 1990. While stuck in traffic in Sturgis, oil temp before the cooler was pushing 400 degrees.

 

I wished I was like everyone else at that point. I knew my nuts were frying, but wish I didn't now how hot it really was.

 

It normally ran upper 200's on a hot day with my feet flat on the floorboards. Lay them out on the pegs on the crash bars, and it would be up 30 degrees in a couple miles.

 

Must be the straight up legs pushed air to the back cylinder?

 

The aluminum engines give up a lot more heat than the old iron cylinder shovel did. I don't know how hot the evo's and twin cam HD's or any others run.

 

Later, Scooter Bob

[BradT]

When I asked I was thinking of Naugh-T's bike. She has a gauge but not sure how accurate it is. Normally on a hot day it will be around 230-250, but when we went to Dover, hot day, stop and go traffic it was over 260.

 

The Victory site had no answers either and figured someone here would have a decent answer. I also figured someone here would have a smart a$$ answer and again you proved me right.

 

Rlyons Thanks figured that was normal, but was curious when it is time to shut it off.

 

BRad