Need some help guys...

[walera]

Hey peeps, need a lil help here.
I was out riding today and got caught out in the rain. In order to beat traffic i took some back roads home. Unfortunately, these roads were either flooded or very muddy. Long story short, my bike wash a mess by the time i got home. Now my radiator fan doesn't come on anymore and i see and smell smoke coming from where the radiator is. The smoke comes up just about the time my rad fan usually kicks in. Lagos is very hot, all i need to do is ride round the house and the fan kicks in but now it doesn't. I need a first point of attack, should i check the fuses or strip the fairings off and see what's goin on underneath.
Pls help guys.....cheers

[kkim]

check to see that the fan is not being jammed from debris that may have become lodged between the fan and radiator/housing. it's happened before. can you freely turn the fan by hand?

if so, the next thing I would check is to see if the fan is still operational by applying 12v directly to the fan to see if it runs when power is applied.

[walera]

Thanks Kkim. You were right. All i had to do was spin the fan blades a couple of times and that solved to problem. Man, you're Godsent. Now that the fairings are off i'll just give it a nice scrub down. Cheers

[kkim]

Glad it was an easy fix.

[wayanlam]

i had a pebble jam my fan up and it burnt the fuse, but not before totaling the fan the dealer tried changing out the fuse three times before giving up.

i was lucky enough that the bike was still under warranty (happened just a month or so after i got the bike) and they changed the fan out for a new one free of charge.

really hope its something that happens once in a lifetime, ha ha