my bikes hurting :(

[craigT19]

hi all.

my baby is not well...had a stone hit my radiator today causing a coolant leak.

Coolant over everything it smells really bad.

one question i put some "Rad weld" in to the expansion bottle will that solve it??

regards

craig
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[Danny]

Unlucky there mate

[Kickstart]

Hi

Might solve it, but might make the radiator fairly useless afterwards. Never going to know without trying it.....

Try the local radiator repair shops and see if they can repair it properly

All the best

Keith
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[Hex]

yeah really depends on the size of the hole mate, radweld stuff is fine for small cracks etc but if its a bigger hole it may not sort it.
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[Demonic69]

Nooooooooooooooo, not in the Expansion bottle!!!!!!!
You need to put it in the rad itself or it'll clog the lines up.
Radweld saved me a few times on the RF as most who were at BdB will remember.
Is your rad straight or curved? If it's straight you can get it re-cored, not too expensive. If it's curved you're fucked
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[G]

Liquid should only move from-to the expansion bottle when the temp's pretty high (around 100 I think) .. so that won't do anything usefull .

[Hex]

whoops missed the fact he said expansion tank
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[craigT19]

ok I took it to a garage as it was only a hairline crack, the guys ran the bike untill the fan kicked in (so very very hot) and then they put some stuff (looked like metal shavings) in the expansion bottle, and then ran it for a few miles.

im glad to say job done the bikes running sweet as a knut

thx fellas
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