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Good day . Out in the hills when we have to go up a trail to get to alpine. I have to watch the temp seem not right to me. If I hit 5 bars have to stop and put snow on top of tunnel .Spoils the ride watching that heat gauge to much. Today doing 40 to 50 mph. on trail 5 inches of new snow still had to watch. What are you all doing or is it me.???? Thanks.
 

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Good day . Out in the hills when we have to go up a trail to get to alpine. I have to watch the temp seem not right to me. If I hit 5 bars have to stop and put snow on top of tunnel .Spoils the ride watching that heat gauge to much. Today doing 40 to 50 mph. on trail 5 inches of new snow still had to watch. What are you all doing or is it me.???? Thanks.

You still have the snow flap?
 

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As is your snow flap curled into/towards your track? If it is, it will do the opposite of what it is supposed to do.
 

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your hitting 5 bars with fresh snow on the trail at 40mph? and this is a factory turbo? going that fast with scratchers down it should only hit 4-5 bars max even with no snow flap.

i would lift the front end off the ground 3ft or so, remove the coolant cap ( main one ) and run it up to temperature to try and get any air out of the system. see if that helps

also, 5 bars is far from overheat, why do you have to put snow on the tunnel at 5 bars? 5 bars is half way up the guage which is about right?

if your doing a really slow, whooped out trail uphill they will get warm. Anything groomed, fresh snow, or moving at any rate of speed should operate 4-5 bars. Normal
 
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Snow flap A ok. At 5 bars it jump to a higher temp. It also warms up in half the time a NA will. Some body should come up with a kit so that it works right. So it works off of thermostat . Thanks.
 

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I have a 21 850 n/a, I had to install a second set of scratchers. Brought down the temp over 20 degrees. As far as the short tunnel snow flap, I have one for sale.
 

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5 days is about normal running temp. I click the button on the dash and actually watch temp on trail up and down always. Im about 50-65c on trail up down usually. If its really warm or ice, I have to stop and throw snow on the tunnel, ive hit the over heat a couple times this year going up in revy and whistler. 80c.
 

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Yup I always scroll threw display and leave on engine temp while on the trail up and down....good advice right there^^^^^^
 

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The snow flap extension work well too buddy put one one but I think they look gay..... hey wonder if that Lynx snow divertor on the rear wheels would work...?
 

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I run the flap pretty much all the time. Mine runs war, as well compared to previous G4's. Flap designs for the 175's are a joke IMO. A whooped out trail guarantees the flap will catch the track and fold inward. It needs to be designed to cock back a bit so this doesn't happen.
 
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