Bandit 600 Oil Cooler

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?

 

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

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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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Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

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.

 

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

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