gdhillon
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It’s a 2015 outlander 500 with dps. I’ve never had an overheating issue with it before.
Took it out for a recovery mission yesterday. it was about -8C. No big mud puddles or anything like that. The quad started giving me the overheat limp home message about half an hour in. I rode it a bit with the message on to get to the stuck quad. When we had my quad setup to start winching i turned the quad off. Got rigged up fired it back up I’d say 15 minutes later and it was fine for the winching(I was feathering the throttle). Once the other quad was on dry land I repositioned to yank it around and then my overheating light began again. At one point the quad actually shut itself down, I thought the fan was working but turns out it was the sound of coolant boiling (normally I would have shut it off myself and waited for it to cool but my judgement was clouded by a few wobbly pops lol).
The headlights do work so I am thinking the fan issue is with the switch or relay itself? I have seen some fan bypass switch vids on YouTube so I’ll be doing that mod once it warms up a bit, perhaps next season. According to google I may have a air bubble in the system, I will look into that as well. Is there anything else you guys can think of that’s causing this overheating issue?
thanks in advance !
Took it out for a recovery mission yesterday. it was about -8C. No big mud puddles or anything like that. The quad started giving me the overheat limp home message about half an hour in. I rode it a bit with the message on to get to the stuck quad. When we had my quad setup to start winching i turned the quad off. Got rigged up fired it back up I’d say 15 minutes later and it was fine for the winching(I was feathering the throttle). Once the other quad was on dry land I repositioned to yank it around and then my overheating light began again. At one point the quad actually shut itself down, I thought the fan was working but turns out it was the sound of coolant boiling (normally I would have shut it off myself and waited for it to cool but my judgement was clouded by a few wobbly pops lol).
The headlights do work so I am thinking the fan issue is with the switch or relay itself? I have seen some fan bypass switch vids on YouTube so I’ll be doing that mod once it warms up a bit, perhaps next season. According to google I may have a air bubble in the system, I will look into that as well. Is there anything else you guys can think of that’s causing this overheating issue?
thanks in advance !