Vipers Overheating

[Maim]

the rear cooler thing mac is describing happnes quite often. my brother now clears the rear cooler or checks it every time we stop when trail riding after having the coolant light come on the one time and it was iced over.

 

[Snowsnake]

One other scenario not discussed is the ice shelf that begins to form over the front or rear exchanger. This only happens with very cold temps. This ice shelf prevents new snow from coming into contact with the cooler. When I punch the ice shelf it breaks off but will reform in just several minutes when I see my temp gauge increasing with temp. Have not found a solution and its only happened a couple of times when in Quebec at very cold temps.

looking at your avatar you have a belly pan protector.If you didn't do it when you installed it trim about 2 inches off of the back of it.My nephews 02 would build a wall of ice on real cold days at the front exchanger.We cut a 2 inch strip off of the protector and never had another problem.It was actually our dealer that told us to do it.The funny part is that the dealer installed it in the first place.My nephew had them do it because he didn't want any problems with his new sled(the dealer told him that it had to be trimmed when he bought it).