Issues after motor swap

[Toom38]

I just had to swap motors in the Varg. On the first ride I took it to a small field just to make sure everything was good. After about 5 minutes at upper 80's air temp, I got a warning on the dashboard stating an issue with the water pump. The water pump is running. Water is circulating thru the radiator and I loosened the coolant drain bolt on the motor to check for coolant. I did prime the pump according to Stark's video, twice. So I'm stumped. What am I missing? What else can I check? Does anyone know where the temp sensor is located? The first time I powered up the bike I did have a flashing magenta light so it did do an update of something. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[wfopete]

Sounds like you covered the all the bases. Have you called Stark? It wouldn't be the first time a issues occurred with the cooling system.

 

[AL_V]

I just had to swap motors in the Varg. On the first ride I took it to a small field just to make sure everything was good. After about 5 minutes at upper 80's air temp, I got a warning on the dashboard stating an issue with the water pump. The water pump is running. Water is circulating thru the radiator and I loosened the coolant drain bolt on the motor to check for coolant. I did prime the pump according to Stark's video, twice. So I'm stumped. What am I missing? What else can I check? Does anyone know where the temp sensor is located? The first time I powered up the bike I did have a flashing magenta light so it did do an update of something. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Yes, assuming you don't already have the G1 to G2 cooling conversion kit (part# SMX1-CL-G2-KT), order one and install it, basically self bleeding and fixes air in the system problems.

 

[Toom38]

Waiting to hear back from Stark. AL, do you know what the difference is between the conversion kit pump and the Gen 1? So you think that's the issue? Thanks.

 

[Theo]

Here is that kit. It doesn't include a complete pump, just a different cover for it since there is one extra hose.