Corrosion of Conformity.....

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Speedway73
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Corrosion of Conformity.....

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Looks like the corrosion mutants have struck again. Bike has been sitting for several months. When I went to kick it over....locked up tight. I put a breaker bar on the flywheel and it broke free but was stiff. Fearing the cylinder had rusted up,I popped the top and found it clean as whistle and rust free. Worked the crank around back and forth but had a tight spot in it....that is until the water pump shaft broke.

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According to the Sevice Honda website....these '85/'86 covers are still available. I know...."why put another cover on there that is prone to corroding" ?

I figure if it took 25 years to get this bad....a new cover will take another 25yrs...by that time I'll be too damn old to ride this thing! LOL
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:wink: Paint the inside of the new one with some Epoxy then it wont do that...
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Speedway73
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pstoffers wrote::wink: Paint the inside of the new one with some Epoxy then it wont do that...
Any suggestions on what epoxy to use??
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Re: Corrosion of Conformity.....

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According to the Sevice Honda website....these '85/'86 covers are still available.
I must be missing something, could you post a link to the 85/86 covers
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Some thing like this. I'm not a fan of rattle can produtcs

http://www.tcpglobal.com/kustomshop/kspepoprime.aspx
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Post by nmdesertrider »

Looks like the cover is available on rocky mountain atv but it costs 100$ than the modern cover that won't corrode.
Why not just update to the newer cover? You can get a clutch cover for a 250 for less than 20 bucks on ebay.
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