| Author | Message | ||
     Terrycoxusa |
I have some vibration induced cracks in my fairing. What is the preferred method to repair them? Thanks | ||
| Harleyelf |
Go to a marine supply house and get a patch kit for fiberglass boat hulls. Apply the cloth and sticky goop to the inside of the fairing to restore strength and then apply a coat of resin to the outside to fill the cracks. Sand smooth and repaint. Find out why the cracks were there in the first place. Fix mounting hardware as needed. | ||
| Greg_cifu |
Before you go that route, you may just try black sewer pipe cement from any hardware store. It's for joining ABS plastic pipe and your fairing isn't much different. It works by melting the two materials together (same as building a plastic model). I repaired a cracked mounting hole on my front fender with a wet coating of the cement from the unpainted side. Use masking tape on the painted surface to minimize the amount that bleeds through the crack. You can color-sand the painted surface afterward to remove any that shows through. I've done numerous repairs to ABS bike parts and it almost always holds. |
