Coolant Overflow Bottle for Motorcycle - Part 1

I went ahead and pulled off everything out of the back here clear so it's straight through so I get my K&N filter installed got rid of all the airbox go ahead and put a plate in here under the frame and now although we're at the fire and fuse box and all that stuff right here flush underneath the seat no be grind off all your brackets and it'll be nice and nice and clean through there but one of the problems is of course the coolant overflow bottle won't have a place to mount or if it does it would be ugly to leave it there so you should always actually always have a coolant overflow a lot of people just run their hose off but actually you'll tend to overheat eventually because your when your engine heats up and radiator needs to kind of build up pressure it'll need to push out some of that fluid and air but when it cools off and needs to pull it back in and if you keep just pushing it out you'll eventually run out of the fluid and you'll actually run hot or most of the time so it's better to actually have a coin overflow now not me places them mount it there but think something right here right next to the radiator because this is actually the overflow hose right there and so the idea I was having was take a monster energy drink bottle and some hoses used some hoses made some clear ones they got and mount that right like that and I I match up pretty well to the right size one of the things you got to watch out for is some people will go just run the hose in and they won't have a vent hose or they'll get one of these t-connectors and they'll they'll run the vent hose off the same tee connection that the intake is and that won't work either what you really need to do is you need to have a hose that comes in all the way to the bottom or through here but all the way to the bottom for the fill and then you need to have a vent hose that's about a hint inch from the top that would go out so what I've done is I went to that I found some T connectors and I went ahead and found a rubber grommet to use as a spacer and a plug for the top I'm gonna use that for my fill hose and I want to likewise do the same thing over on this side of the cap for the vent hose and then run that run that out the back side so oh it's pretty hard to chug one of these things when you want to use the can so I happen to have a empty Sailor Jerry poured it in there it looks like Sailor Jerry so that seems about like the right thing to do but when we fabricate this cap and then we'll figure out how to mount that

Channel: Alan Elliot

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Keywords: Ninja, Kawasaki, coolant overflow, ex250

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Length: 3min 49sec (229 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 19 2018