Radweld?

[sonage32]

iv got a pin hole leak in my rad that you only notice when the bike gets hot and is being reved quite high, im going to buy 1 of rick o's rads but would like to use my bike in the mean time beacuse of all this nice weather!

i was just wondering if any1 has used radweld in the past, will it piss up my cooling system?

[Matchlessman]

Ive used it in a Mini and it was really good. 2 bottles of it stopped water pissing out of my waterpump and I ran the car for about 6 months before i changed it. I didnt notice the car getting any hotter than normal or anything like that.

Not sure how good it would be in a bike, the cooling system is working quite hard anyway so anything thats going to clog up the internals doesnt sound like a good plan.

Have you thought about araldite over the pinprick hole? Or maybe a small self tapping screw? I know they are both bodges but they might work as a short term fix.

[sonage32]

hey thanks for your advice..! iv just been to halfords and go some loctite stuff that does the same job so il give that a go, i know what u mean about putting stuff in the system :S, i know on a an engine which runs over 10k revs it could be asking for trouble.

if it doesnt work its not the end of the world il just have to wait until i can afford a new rad off rick

[twistywizard]

I would try and stay away from the Radweld. The cooling system isnt the best anyway! If it is tiny as above seal the hole for now!

[scratchin]

get some chemical metal have used this twice without problems, one of them was a large hole on my fireblade and it worked a treat

[CRM]

swopped my 916 rad out for a much nicer cleaner one a few weeks back only to find this one has a tiny tiny hole and needs sealing up.
Was thinking about radweld but dont like the idea of clogging the rest of the system up.
chemical metal - now there's a thought.