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27-02-19, 06:48 PM | #1 |
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Help Please. What is this problem?
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27-02-19, 07:12 PM | #2 |
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Re: Help Please. What is this problem?
First guess would be a hole in the radiator or a burst coolant pipe.
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27-02-19, 07:15 PM | #3 |
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Re: Help Please. What is this problem?
Depends on how far the garage is?
Although I managed to do about 50 miles before discovering I'd forgotten to put any coolant in on a curvey. Doubt you need to go to a garage, just fill it up run it up to temp and see where the water comes out from. If it's the radiator then get it changed, don't bother with rad weld as you'll end up changing the radiator anyway. Not a difficult job, eBay have them for "reasonable" prices. If it's a curvey I may have one in the garage, took it off my curvey, refitting the leaky one before trading it in Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
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27-02-19, 07:23 PM | #4 |
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Re: Help Please. What is this problem?
Thanks both
It is London, so garage is short on distance, longer on time. 25 mins probably. Fill it with what coolant? Same as a car one? Sorry for the basic question. If it comes out of the radiator itself/there is a whole in that replace it. Ok. What if it is a pipe? It is an AL7, but thanks. |
27-02-19, 07:26 PM | #5 |
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27-02-19, 08:01 PM | #6 |
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Thats a good distance from me!
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27-02-19, 08:31 PM | #8 |
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Re: Help Please. What is this problem?
Looks like a holed radiator. Probably a stone getting flicked up when riding. Do yourself a favour & fit a fender extender &/or a radiator grille. Hope it's a quick fix.
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27-02-19, 09:55 PM | #9 |
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Re: Help Please. What is this problem?
If at all possible I wouldn't risk riding the bike to a garage or anywhere.I've done it on other motorcycles and pretty fast the head gaskets blow.
Try and track the problem at home and at least temp fix it.You'll get plenty of help on here to fix it yourself.
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27-02-19, 10:24 PM | #10 |
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Cheap bottled value water from Tesco is distilled water. Not hard like tap water can be. Although it may not be in there long enough to scale up anyway by the looks of it. Sitting in traffic for a long time to get to the garage would be worse for overheating than going further at more wind cooling speeds. There's always rads cheap from breakers about. If it's the pipes they're not too much new, and you can get them in nice colours too : )
( edit ^ water as a temp problem finding measure, not instead of proper coolant in the long term obviously. ) |
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