Storing Motorcycle Filled w. Water Wetter

[Eddie]

So anyway, I purchasing this bike and as stated in the topic the thing is filled with water wetter - needdles to say this is a trackbike. Nonetheless, the seller advised me to transport it in a heated van, which is fine from my perspective. However, I'm concerned about storing it in my unheated garage/basement.

You see, the lower level of my half is a split garage and basement with a hall dividing the two areas. The garage is not heated and the basement has baseboard electric heat that does not work well (if at all). So anyways I do not want the thing to get damaged due to storing the bike is a cold area because it has water wetter in it. I was thinking about replacing the wetter with coolant and letting the thing run for a while to ensure the liquid circulated well.

Can you guys give me some advice on this? Thanks a lot, Eddie

[csmutty]

I'd drain it.

[Eddie]

I'd drain it.

Wow!! I suppose that is a logical solution - which I had obviously not thought about. Thanks a bunch!!

[R7]

I was thinking about replacing the wetter with coolant and letting the thing run for a while to ensure the liquid circulated well.

Can you guys give me some advice on this? Thanks a lot, Eddie

Don't think about it, do it if it will be stored where the temp gets below freezing.
Tho I find it hard to believe a basement even with no heat ever gets below freezing?

[JJ9284]

Don't think about it, do it if it will be stored where the temp gets below freezing.
Tho I find it hard to believe a basement even with no heat ever gets below freezing?

I agree with R7. I know when you have water wetter in a race car like the one I am part of, you always drain it if theres even the slightest chance of the temps being around freezing. Dont take the chance and find out the hard way

[Doc]

Yep, that shit will freeze.

[cfro30]

Yep, that shit will freeze.

and nobody likes frozen shit.

[Doc]

and nobody likes frozen shit.

It smells better than warm shit and is much easier to pick up.

[cfro30]

It smells better than warm shit and is much easier to pick up.

This is true, but I was coming from the mindset: shit is shit, no matter how you look at it.

[SVRACER01]

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Shit eventually turns white and stops stinking.....

["Dangerous" Dan K]

Heated van??? I run straight water in the race bike (I went to water wetter this year hunting down a cooling issue, but last year it was water only) and I'd transport it in the bed of a pickup when it's 2 degrees out. Transport time isn't what'll bite ya, it's the sitting time below freezing.
If your basement ever actually gets below 32, I'd treat it like I treat my stored in an unheated shed race bike
Drain
Add real coolant
Run to get coolant in everything
wait for spring
flush coolant with a shit ton of water
add new water w/ water wetter in the spring
go fast, have fun

Best of luck. If I could keep my racebike in the basement it'd still be running water as coolant, my basement doesn't get sub 32 degrees. Pipes I don't want freezing and whatnot.

edit: preteen (csmutty) is either retarded or knows something I don't. You can drain the fluid, but hoses are cheap. I worry about engine, not hoses, and for that you gotta actually run the coolant and get it into the engine.

[oVTo]

Heated van??? I run straight water in the race bike (I went to water wetter this year hunting down a cooling issue, but last year it was water only) and I'd transport it in the bed of a pickup when it's 2 degrees out. Transport time isn't what'll bite ya, it's the sitting time below freezing.
If your basement ever actually gets below 32, I'd treat it like I treat my stored in an unheated shed race bike
Drain
Add real coolant
Run to get coolant in everything
wait for spring
flush coolant with a shit ton of water
add new water w/ water wetter in the spring
go fast, have fun

Best of luck. If I could keep my racebike in the basement it'd still be running water as coolant, my basement doesn't get sub 32 degrees. Pipes I don't want freezing and whatnot.

edit: preteen (csmutty) is either retarded or knows something I don't. You can drain the fluid, but hoses are cheap. I worry about engine, not hoses, and for that you gotta actually run the coolant and get it into the engine.

It's much better to have the coolant's anti-corrosive properties inside the engine all winter than air and the residual water from draining.

[Awesome]

FILLED with water wetter, or filled with water, and a capfull of water wetter. Either way drain it if it's not effed already.

[Stromper]

For some chemicals I had an oil filled electric radiator on low with old blankets around everything

Unless you drained it, filled it with antifreeze and ran to be replaced with water in the spring you could never be sure there isn't a freeze problem deep inside

[butcher bergs]

I agree with R7.

[DuncanMoto]

Bergs!
What are you doing to your dog?

[butcher bergs]

There's a thread in Off Topic.

[BluGixxer]

Why are you doing that to your dog ?
Should we call PETA ?

[DuncanMoto]

Maybe he's draining the water wetter so Devo won't freeze.

["Dangerous" Dan K]

We don't want Devo to freeze! Leave The Butcher and Devo alone goddamnit!

[butcher bergs]

There is a thread in OT concerning my avatar. It's titled "My dog's anus..."

[Eddie]

Thanks for everyone's input. Found the drain plug and drained it - can never be too safe. Now the the 600rr is in its new lair I'll start to work on my trackbike build in a few days - I'll post up some pictures in anyone is interested.

["Dangerous" Dan K]

Draining it isn't gonna cut it dude.
Water wetter freezes, and blocks crack. Put some coolant in that bitch and run her for a few minutes.

[csmutty]

Draining it isn't gonna cut it dude.
Water wetter freezes, and blocks crack. Put some coolant in that bitch and run her for a few minutes.

How is it going to freeze of you drain the bike from the pump?

[Sheppo]

How is it going to freeze of you drain the bike from the pump?

cause I gaddamngaurantee you wont get all the water out. I lost a racemotor in my car this way.
fill it with coolant and run it. Flush it in the spring.