...out the bloomin' radiator cap! So, I have flushed my coolant and refilled etc etc...but the radiator cap leaks (it never did until I flippin touched it), so...what now...a new cap I assume... The current one looks misshapen, the metal cap bit, not the actual rubber bit Are these bike specific? Can I get one from a car spares place? Are them serviceable? This bloomin' bike... 2002 Speed Triple 955i
What do you think I am, some sort of Muppet!? (Yeah, sort of...)... I found the cap really hard to get off...and so, to make things easier to put it back on I bent the little tabs under the cap out a little so the fit was a little looser. However, I think this then meant when I put it on it didn't pull the cap down enough to create a good seal. So taking it off and just generally playing with the cap I decided to clean (with brake cleaner) all around the inside of the cap and just feel I made the pressure spring mechanism a little free-er and also rebent the tags so they start off easier but pull good and tight. This seems to have given a good pulling down of the cap, so it seals well. Ran up to temperature and all seems ok... I did film all this... but forgot to press 'record'...but it was a brilliant job; promise!!
Shame about the record button. You started at 1:41 PM and finished at 7:40 PM, so your radiator cap film would have been a 6 hour epic Coolant Hand Luke? Cap Fear?
