How to fix cracked fairing
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#2
Ebay
Be patience, wait on EBay, there will be a time when you find one piece fairings that will match exactly. Don't hurry, your bike will never be perfect. When the time comes, buy that mid section/belly piece and replace it. Repairs will not last long.
#3
That's really poor advice, and you obviously don't know much about repairs...
-First off, take a very very very small drill bit, and drill out the end of the crack. This will prevent the crack from continuing.
-Next, get a dremel with a small grinder wheel and clean the roughness of the crack out on the BACK side. Now get the plastic in place in place, and tape if need be with masking tape to hold it in place (masking tape on front side).
Lastly, use a nice plastic repair kit such as this one from motosport. Do all your work from the backside, avoid having it come through the front side You should be able to repair the plastic so as it's held in place, which combined with drilling the end of the crack will keep it from spreading. If you do a good enough job, and pay good attention, the crack will be difficult to spot.
-First off, take a very very very small drill bit, and drill out the end of the crack. This will prevent the crack from continuing.
-Next, get a dremel with a small grinder wheel and clean the roughness of the crack out on the BACK side. Now get the plastic in place in place, and tape if need be with masking tape to hold it in place (masking tape on front side).
Lastly, use a nice plastic repair kit such as this one from motosport. Do all your work from the backside, avoid having it come through the front side You should be able to repair the plastic so as it's held in place, which combined with drilling the end of the crack will keep it from spreading. If you do a good enough job, and pay good attention, the crack will be difficult to spot.
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#6
Hi, i work with fibreglass and have repaired cracked, split and holed fairings with no problems. available in kit form on Ebay or from some good automotive stores. general rule is you get out what you put in, in terms of the quality of the repair. Make sure you repair from the inside of the fairing and that it is clean and sanded down, giving the resin a keyed surface to bond to. If you have a hole to fill, tape over with masking tape or the like on the finished side, so the fibreglass has some support when you come to repair from the other side. Once cured take off the tape then start the process of filling and flatting off with body filler. Hope this helps
#7
Not bad, but I think the damage you repaired there goes beyond cracked, heh.
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