jim oneill
triplex
05 with the usual complaint about the heat. Isn,t ther a mod kit you can get to help this? anybody know where to get this?
I guess you don't understand if you go from one crotch burner to another one. My 04 was a nut roasting, shin burning SOB. And still was after I put some insulation under the tank and foam blocks inside the fairing. Other than that, it was a great bike. I've had a lot of internal combustion engine motorcycles and the 04 FJR was the hottest. My 08 is much better with the heat.A few years ago I came from a Honda Magna to an 05 FJR, and I guess I just don't understand the heat issue, unless you are sitting in busy traffic for hours on end. As one friend once told me, you are sitting on top of an internal combustion engine for God's sakes, what do you expect.
I bought the heat kit and it has made a world of difference. I had some sound proofing material I bought for the truck and tried to do it myself the first time, That didn't work the material wasn't flexible enough. The kit was pretty easy to install. I'll tell when I desided to install the heat kit... It was when riding last summer on a 100 degree day and the lower sides of gas tank was too hot to touch and my inner thighs were burning. Enough was enough.https://jfindustriesltd.com/SpeedZoneAhead/...tgastankfix.htm
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https://www.fjrowners.ws/forum/messages/6/10176.html
Or you could just do it yourself. Buy some heat shield insulation like I did and put it under the tank over the engine, and buy some foam, cut blocks out, wrap them in heat shielding and put them inside the top edges of the fairing. Works like a charm up to about 95.
Hmmm. I don't have any issues really with my bike as far as tank/crotch heat goes ... just gets really hot along my thighs where they meet the frame area under the tank. Any body have any ideas to help with that? I noticed that the previous owner had put reflective insulation under the gas tank.... I thought it was factory, but I guess not! Good to him! I am thinking maybe some insulation on the inside part of the frame, or removing the rubber flaps to allow more air flow has anybody tried that?Tank blanket, and lining the black plastic covers under the tank & some under the seat cured my 04 from severe heat (a must here in Az)
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