Why spend £175+ on new down pipes when you can do this.....

[ian505050]

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Just spent some time and very little money on my bike. Decided that stainless steel down pipes are to posh for me and had a play with some gumgum and managed to blather it on the exhaust to fix a 10mm x 5mm holes (infact a few holes).

The stuff i used is ace, its like play-doe for men.

I nearly considered buying half a dozen tubs off the stuff and covering all the steel down pipes to prevent any more holes appearing.

My questions are

1) How long will my repair/modification/improvement last?

2.) Am i an Idiot?

ps. I am not a troll and a genuinely did this to my bike, it is not a photoshop

[Clutchy]

Did the same for a ped I had, depends on the vibrations in the road and how big any cracks/gaps are.

Sometimes mine lasted a day, sometimes a week.

You'll soon get bored of re-applying all the time.
However, I didn't see the condition it was in before, so may last last longer.


But to be fair, I used this stuff to partiality attach my exhaust to the manifold just to one broken stud and the other in half
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[2 litre]

It will probably just blow out the first time it gets some high revs on it

[ian505050]

[ian505050]

[Clutchy]

[Drake]

seems you have been down lees road ehh just round the corner from my works
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[goto10]

Use it in conjunction with an exhaust bandage, that will help keep it all on there.
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[Nope.]

[Clutchy]

[ian505050]

The holes right below the engine and impossible to weld and the down pipes cannot be removed.

I am tempted by the baked beans can method but will probably go for spaghetti hoops as you can get a can for 6p still at netto.

On second thoughts should i go for heinz as the can might be a bit better quality can?

[polar]

thats a god damn mess, get a new 1

[Raffles]

You could use it in conjunction with a wire mesh but even then it would just be a very short term bodge. Exhaust paste on it's Jack is next to useless.
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[mr jamez]

You just lost £2.65 towards your new down pipes.
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[goto10]

It's basically a 'get through the MOT' bodge.
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[Ja7]

You've been reading paddys book again.

[Cheeseybeaner]

[polar]

if this was me i would have put the fairing back on the bike, and never told another soul, i definitely would not put them on bcf
you may as well cover the rest of the bike in the stuff.

[ian505050]

Downpipes can be removed because the exhaust studs will snap off

[polar]

[ian505050]

[suzukirider19...]

if you want it to last a while cover it with gum gum then wrap it tight with heat wrap and jubee clip it.
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[Seigi]

[thx1138]

Yeah I've bodged with gun gum a few times in the distant past, it's good for a while, but not long or medium term.

[jeddy11]

best to grind all the rust off first or it will continue to rust and that will break the gun gum also try heating it first before running the engine may give it a chance to harden properly.

But yer ive only used it on the cars years ago with limited success to be honest all these quick fixes for petrol tanks and radiators etc never last..
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