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Oil Cooler options
« on: June 30, 2022, 04:14:20 pm »
Hi everyone!

It's summer, so of course my bike (K13S) is out to play again. I'm toying with the idea of changing the oil cooler for one of greater capacity to help with the cooling.

I'm already resigned to replacing the radiator every few years, but even with a fairly fresh rad, I find the bike is sometimes marginal on cooling (engine working hard at top of an Alpine pass, lots of low-speed hairpins etc). So, to give it a helping hand, I figure just swap the oil cooler for one that can cool more oil - can't hurt, right?

I've been looking at getting one made, but I've noticed from photos on ebay etc that the K1300GT oil cooler seems to be thicker (and therefore more cooling!) that the K13S version. They certainly have different part numbers. Is anyone able to confirm if these things are different sizes?

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Steve

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Re: Oil Cooler options
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2022, 08:43:28 am »
Or...

If there's anyone that's able to measure the thickness of the 1300GT oil cooler, I can then compare that to mine.

Many thanks if anyone ever gets round to it!