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GT550 cylinder temps

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 4:59 pm
by ohiogt550
Has anyone here ever measured the temps on the cylinder fins after a hard run? If not, can someone do so? Like by using a non-contact pyrometer, and measuring down between the fins where the vibration isolators live?

I have it mind to 3D print a set of the rubber fin vibration isolators, but don't know if the melt temp of TPR is high enough. I have a printer, and CAD software for my engineering business, and I could easily fit over 100 of the little aspirins on the platten. If it can be made to work, I'd offer them cheap, by the dozen....

Re: GT550 cylinder temps

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:23 am
by Alan H
I've never measured temperatures as you ask, and I've been riding 550s since they were introduced in 1972.
I currently have 4 550s (one just starting rebuild) and none of the runners have the 'tablets' in the barrel fins, so don't worry about them. I have a boxful of the darn things.