It shouldn't overheat at all doing freeway riding on a 90F day, and over heating wouldn't cause it to smoke from under the engine. It's far more likely you have a slow oil leak somewhere that's dripping down onto the exhaust.
-Kyle On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:48 PM, ADAMinIowa <[email protected]> wrote: > 1985 NH 650 - I've been noticing lately on pretty hot days (90deg & sunny > in Iowa) after some riding (10min+ / highway) I'm getting some light smoke > from under the engine when coming to a stop (lack of air-cooling). I know > this is prime "just burned hot, now stopped with limited cooling" time, but > should I be concerned of any smoke at all / burning oil? > > Note: I think I may have overfilled a bit on oil a couple weeks ago but > only ran it 1-2 days until I checked and let some out. > > I usually ride ~7 miles at a time back and forth to work, but I want to > know if I should be concerned on longer / weekend / hot day drives. > > Thoughts??? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
