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Wingedcat - 17 Aug 2007 11:19 GMT

Where the stone chip guard clips over the oil cooler, it has, over
42,000 miles, rubbed right through the aluminium so that it is now
leaking oil in a slow drip-drip type fashion.

A new one is £120 odd (which stings a bit) and I don't really fancy a
second hand one from Ebay (a few are available) in case it suffers a
similar fate.

Are there any repair options? What would they do in Cuba?

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Ace - 17 Aug 2007 11:27 GMT

>Where the stone chip guard clips over the oil cooler, it has, over
>42,000 miles, rubbed right through the aluminium so that it is now
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
>Are there any repair options? What would they do in Cuba?

Plastic metal will work much better than duct tape and chewing gum.

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Grimly Curmudgeon - 17 Aug 2007 12:04 GMT

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Wingedcat <wingedcat@fsmail.net>
saying something like:

>Are there any repair options? What would they do in Cuba?

Araldite or Liquid Steel type of thing, but the leaky bit has to be
utterly clean before application. You might find a suitable new / used
cooler from another model that will fit without too much hassle.

I'd make sure the mountings were such it couldn't rub again.

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Wingedcat - 17 Aug 2007 16:15 GMT

On Aug 17, 12:04 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:

> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Wingedcat <winged...@fsmail.net>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Dave
> GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Thanks. I'll give the Chemical Metal a go. My worry was that the oil
would be under too high a pressure to be contained by the Chemical
Metal stuff. Sounds however like this is not the case. Worth a try and
better than laying out over £100 on a new oil cooler.

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mb - 17 Aug 2007 16:49 GMT

> Where the stone chip guard clips over the oil cooler, it has, over
> 42,000 miles, rubbed right through the aluminium so that it is now
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Are there any repair options? What would they do in Cuba?

Braze or silver solder. Prolly a good idea to clean it out first.

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Mark Olson - 17 Aug 2007 17:20 GMT

>>Where the stone chip guard clips over the oil cooler, it has, over
>>42,000 miles, rubbed right through the aluminium so that it is now
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>>
>>Are there any repair options? What would they do in Cuba?

> Braze or silver solder. Prolly a good idea to clean it out first.

Anyone ever try this stuff "as seen on TV"? Looks tempting, nothing
other than a propane torch and a wire brush needed, apparently.

http://www.durafix.com/

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steve robinson - 17 Aug 2007 18:10 GMT

> > > Where the stone chip guard clips over the oil cooler, it has, over
> > > 42,000 miles, rubbed right through the aluminium so that it is now
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>
> http://www.durafix.com/

Can you braze Aluminium

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mb - 17 Aug 2007 19:31 GMT

> > Anyone ever try this stuff "as seen on TV"? Looks tempting, nothing
> > other than a propane torch and a wire brush needed, apparently.
> >
> > http://www.durafix.com/
>
> Can you braze Aluminium

If TWI says so, then yes;
http://www.twi.co.uk/j32k/unprotected/band_1/brazing_al.html

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Bandit 600 Oil Cooler