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Message started by Bubba on 11/17/09 at 09:27:53

Title: Got me to thinkin'
Post by Bubba on 11/17/09 at 09:27:53

So tell me if I'm crazy...a couple weeks ago I posted a thread about my '06 stalling when it was cold (30 degrees). I had some great suggestions to try but the weather went and turned good on me so I'm still not sure what the cause was.
Forum member Routy had suggested that it could be caused by carb icing...seemed plausible...

Routy quote:
"Icing take place when the temps are cold,.... freezing or even above. And it is the rushing wind chill factor that takes the temps of the air coming into the carb and intake to well below freezing and forming ice inside the carb and intake manifold. If the engine can possibly warm up before the icing takes place, then icing will usually not occur. But w/o a heat riser, or any kind of a hot air intake, the only chance is to minimize the air volume that is sucked into the carb while the engine is warming up, therefore why I said to use low RPMs."

I was reading through one of the new topics and came across this from forum member Srinath:

Srinath quote:
My rectifier is just dropped in the airbox. Not screwed in anywhere. It makes heat and if its fitted to metal, the thought is it will dissipate some of that. But I and you have done 1 better, its in the wind. Nothing better than that. I put it in the airbox and have run the bike almost 1000 miles. Its holding up just fine. Looked at it last week, its not a problem.

So my thinking is...if the rectifier generates heat and you drop it into the airbox...would it generate enought heat to warm the air coming into the carb and prevent icing????

What do ya think...totally stupid or brilliant????? :-/

Title: Re: Got me to thinkin'
Post by Phelonius on 11/17/09 at 09:31:19

No, not enough heat. However, the location in the airbox will undoubtedly improve cooling of the rectifier.

Phelonius

Title: Re: Got me to thinkin'
Post by Serowbot on 11/17/09 at 17:29:49

It can't hurt!.... ;)