Thread: coolant dump?
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Old 18-Sep-2009, 15:50
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Originally Posted by TopiToo
What I can not understand is there must of been some force behind the panels to blow them off the bike in such a way and do so much damage?
Is it possible for coolant pipes to expand like a balloon to eventually burst dumping coolant?

I suppose anything's possible, but at a pressure of say 6psi and a rate of flow that's relatively low, I would have said that fairing loss as a direct result of the hose failing was unlikely. Which Dzuses failed - the ones along the top of the side panel where it meets the nose?

I had a similar failure on my 748, and even with a full belly pan to catch all the water the only thing that happened was my rear tyre got wet.
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