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Sunday, May 22, 2011

VT250F "Silver" part 15: repairing the gauge housing

When the bike was pulled down we noticed an unfortunately large crack on the back of the gauge housing. Luckily you can pick up a fiberglass kit from most hardware stores so thats what we decided to do.

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The first kit we got had a slight problem... in that it was completely useless, the resin had turned bad somehow. But fortunately the replacement can was all well and good.

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"yeah its not supposed to look like that"

Now fiberglass repair seems to be a straight foreword process. But I was a little skeptical that the crack could be fixed. That being said the result was better then i thought possible. I would strongly recommend you follow the instructions on whichever kit you purchased and trust it to work. They seem to know what they're talking about.

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"the excess was trimmed and made to look neat with a razor blade"

After the repair had finished setting the freshly painted cover was reattached and bingo. Gauge housing finished.

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