Brand new L2501 started making a nasty noise at 6 hours

radios1 · Nov 24, 2018

zoltanthegypsy said:
I should know better than to join this conversation... but ... the wording of the notice:

"Hot coolant can spray out onto consumers from the _overheated and pressurized coolant reservoir tank_, posing a burn hazard."

The concern is possible overheating (maybe...) and pressurization of the overflow bottle, not the radiator/engine. The issue - if any - is that someone inspecting/removing the plugged cap on a pressurized and overfilled bottle could get a face full of hot coolant.

Thanks for posting the link and warning. Thankfully my BX24 is not on the list and my GR was built prior to the problem - and I just checked the caps for correct venting.

Z.

WOW, that DOES make it a big deal!..

BX23S-1 · Nov 24, 2018

radios1 said:
WOW, that DOES make it a big deal!..

......uh yup, it IS a big deal, to some of us.
But just not to the people that have never been burned by super heated engine coolant before.
Those are always the kinds of people that see it from afar happening to others but have never experienced their own flesh burning from hot liquid.

radios1 · Nov 24, 2018

PaPow said:
......uh yup, it IS a big deal, to some of us.
But just not to the people that have never been burned by super heated engine coolant before.
Those are always the kinds of people that see it from afar happening to others but have never experienced their own flesh burning from hot liquid.

I had my hands burned from a gasoline torch that the control rod came out of!. turned it too far out, the stop was broken.. I'd never do that again!..

BX23S-1 · Nov 24, 2018

radios1 said:
I had my hands burned from a gasoline torch that the control rod came out of!. turned it too far out, the stop was broken.. I'd never do that again!..

Its surely not funny when that happens. Only need to have been burned one time, and then the brain kicks in and puts it into thy memory NOT to do that again. That chit hurts!!!