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09-09-17, 05:58 PM | #11 |
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Re: New cooling hose
Silicone rubber hoses on cars are much superior to normal hoses (and nicer colours) but you get what you pay for - bikes are normally around for much longer than cars and owners tend to hang onto them for longer, so got to be worth fitting SR hoses if you are going to replace them, or are doing a rebuild. Bike hoses also get exposed to sunlight which does not happen to car ones.
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09-09-17, 11:29 PM | #12 |
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Re: New cooling hose
I agree that Modern Silicone hoses should be superior than older synthetic rubber hoses however that fact that the original coolant hoses on my old CX500s are still in good state after 35 years make me go Hmmm....
Also.This year my very old,"Redring Super7" electric Shower unit died I had to buy and fit a new Electric shower(£50 Triton Cara/Bargain) but needed a small amount of flex pipe to get it to fit/work because of the way my old one was fitted it just so happened that a bit of my old spare CX coolant pipe was the diameter and with a couple of Jubilee clips:Job done
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10-09-17, 08:08 AM | #13 |
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Re: New cooling hose
http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorc.../2002/sv650-k2
yeah, but look at the lovely colours you can get.............
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10-09-17, 05:55 PM | #14 |
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Re: New cooling hose
One of the problems with the SV is that you have to take the rad off to get the front plug out, so the hoses get more of a beating up than on other bikes. The fabric of it in the main is fine, if I had been handed it with no prior knowledge I would have thought it was a good one, but for some reason it leaks. The replacement was a similar age but seems fine, no leaks.
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10-09-17, 07:42 PM | #15 |
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Re: New cooling hose
On my Curvy I don't have to take the rad off to get to the front plug.I have fitted an after market horn on the left hand side front and removed the Stock horn bracket.I can get to the front plug by just removing the 3 Rad bolts and swinging the Rad forward.
The orange cable/coil is just a Disc lock reminder. I have a piece of cardboard with some double sided tape on one side that I stick to the Back of the Rad to stop the fins cutting my hands and my hands from damaging the fins when checking the front plug
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