crack sealant

[pdef]

I got my parts in this week and when going over everything this morning I found a 2 inch crack on my headlight cover. This wasnt from the accident so I am thinking someone knocked it off my work bench :-? .

Anyways, does anyone know of something that will keep water out and won't melt from the headlights?

[Tourmeister]

Are you saying the glass is cracked or the plastic housing around the headlights?

Adios,

[pdef]

The plastic. It's not missing anything, just a hairline crack. I ride my bike in the rain a lot and don't want it to get inside and fry the bulbs.

[Tourmeister]

Well, if it is the plastic, that means it will be up under the front upper cowling and out of sight. So ugliness of the repair is not as big an issue. I would think that some kind of plastic weld goop would do it. You might want to take a soldering iron with a V shaped tip and run it along the crack to make the crack a V shape. This will give the goop a place to get down into and to have a good surface on each side of the crack for bonding. I don't have any particular brand or type of goop in mind. I used some to do some ABS plastic welding not long ago that sets up rock hard... fast. So I had to work quick! But it worked really well. You might even be able to use something like Estes model glue :shrug:

Adios,

[pdef]

Thanks Scott. Sunday I am going to attempt to put the bike together and try jumping it off my truck. With any luck it will run :-) . My helmet is due in Wednesday. It took a little while due to complications with my credit card (read: lack of funds). So hopefully I will be back on two wheels in a week.

[Tourmeister]

How are the body parts doing? All healed up?

Adios,

[pdef]

Yeah, just a sensitive right ankle still if anything solid hits it.