Think BB2.5 may have an ickey lickey coolant leak, which reveals itself when the cooling fan comes on and a few drops of coolant appear on the right side of my fairing where the holes are.
Think it may be a leak in the radiator as it looks scummy.
Ill take off the fairing and have a look, presently thinking its drops of coolant kicked up by the fan when it cuts in.
So, should my diagnosis prove correct and it probably will as few Doctors roll yer skin back, what are my options?
New radiator £465.00.
Radweld?
Radiator recore, don`t know what that means.
Stop riding.
My payment options include:-
Selling my car and getting a trailer and roof bars on the Daytona, non viable as although the car has just passed its MOT, a 195,5301mile Audi A4 Avant which looks like a mule with diarrhoea has lived in it for 5 years dont cut the mustard.
Touting Julie in the streets of Wembley over the Olympic period, I`ve already enlisted the help of a local ticket tout on this one. Earnings unknown.
Selling myself to fat housewives, no need for a ticket tout on this one, and I keep all the profits.
So for all you fatties out there, prices on application via PM.
When my rad was leaking I fixed it by draining ‘a bit’ from the system then using liquid metal to seal it. Won’t work all of the time but well worth a try.
It could also be a pipe/connection to the rad (he says, hopefully!)
Slipper, my run of bad luck does continue, I`ve hurt my leg today too, training for the LB LAA half marathton (well running away from the MOT tester while the car was swanning through). Thanks for the egg suggestion, but your cookery/engineering thread has put me off using food to repair things, and eggs are expensive.:ermm:
As above, eliminate poor hose connections etc (your bike has been taken apart and put back so many times) then spend £10 on K-Seal if the problem is more serious.
K-Seal is like heavy duty RadWeld. It will seal head gasket leaks, and in my case, stopped a water pump leak (that’s right, it stopped a leak between a worn seal and a rotating shaft, for over six months until I got round to a proper repair). As my mechanic says, it is worth £8.77 or whatever he charged me, to see if it works!
Yes yes I know but I did some digging for you and according to this thread it was only a mention for a company called Aaron Radiators - eezyrida’s fix lasted 14 months…
Sorry to hear of your leak, Chris, I hope it is a loose coupling or a leaky hose.
If it’s the radiator then whether it’s repairable depends on where the leak is. In the incident which Serrisan found out about in his research, I went to Aaron Radiators (which required me turning up on my bike with my top box full of tools and antifreeze and removing the radiator in the street lol), and they pointed out that the leak was in a dodgy area right in the bottom right hand corner that was difficult to fix, they couldn’t guarantee it’d work. As I was due to go on a biking holiday the following day and was desperate I paid my £100 and took a chance. It did indeed work for 14 months but leaked again just when I was about to go on my next biking holiday lol. It couldn’t be fixed again so I ended up getting a new radiator.
If I hadn’t been in such a hurry the first time I would have just got a new rad then, obviously after shopping around a lot to get the cheapest price as they’re certainly not cheap are they?
I personally wouldn’t use radweld and suchlike unless I was really desperate - I always thought of them as a “get you home” temporary solution rather than anything permanent - but maybe that’s just me being picky. I would forever be checking for leaks under the radiator!
As above, eliminate poor hose connections etc (your bike has been taken apart and put back so many times) then spend £10 on K-Seal if the problem is more serious.
K-Seal is like heavy duty RadWeld. It will seal head gasket leaks, and in my case, stopped a water pump leak (that’s right, it stopped a leak between a worn seal and a rotating shaft, for over six months until I got round to a proper repair). As my mechanic says, it is worth £8.77 or whatever he charged me, to see if it works!
Update - the farings were off tonight, a small hose found to be loose & tightened up. The coolant level had hardly dropped, so fingers crossed :unsure: Too late tonight to run it up to fan temp so we should know in the morning.
