man in black
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A couple years ago when I still had my 2002 Night Train we went to a big bike event in Johnstown Pa. and there was a huge pack of bikes that had gathered together in a parking lot to enter into town together and were entering the main street just as we were pulling up so we ended up inching our way into town for the next hour. I had an oil thermometer in my oil tank and the temperature got up to 300 degrees. It never ran any higher than 200 before that. Now , I traded the Night Train in last year on a new 2010 Heritage and it is worse. It runs hotter than the Night Train all of the time even in normal traffic which they say is normal for these new bikes. I don't have an oil temp gauge on it yet but I did buy a Lenale fan and installed it where the stock horn was positioned and you get a horn relocation kit to move the horn to the front lower down tubes. Just installed it yesterday and man that little fan really pushes the air across the cylinders . I was planning on installing a Lenale oil cooler with built in fans on it too but yesterday I was talking to Len at Lenale Engineering and he said with the cooling fan on the cylinders that I probably wouldn't even need it , so I'm going to wait and try the fan until later this summer. I suspect that he is right because this fan throws air like a leaf blower. The fan comes with a built in switch right on the fan but you have to reach down all of the time to turn it on or off so I put a factory ad on switch on the handlebars right beside the throttle so it is convenient to only run it in hot conditions in traffic. It seems to me that the price you pay for a Harley that they should finish the bike before they sell them . Overheating is a defect and should have been detected and remedied during the factory testing.
