Fairing repair

[bikerhawk]

Hey, guys-

I discovered a couple rather sizeable stress cracks in my fairing on the way back from a ride in Oklahoma a while back. The bike was on a trailer, and even though I know better, I left the windshield attached to the fairing for the 400-mile round trip in tow behind the truck. Guess what I found about 50 miles from home on the return trip (D'OH!!)? One good 6-inch crack right under the windshield mounting point and another 2-inch crack just to the right of the headlight.

Obviously, finding a replacement factory fairing for my '81 H just ain't gonna happen...so has anyone had luck using readily-accessible materials to repair cracks of this sort? I'm considering trying a Bondo fiberglass repair kit from the inside...any opinions on how that might work? If all else fails, I guess I'll be mounting the Windjammer from my triple and turning that back into a cruiser.

[skids]

I use ABS resin. You can also reinforce the crack from the underside by using strips of ABS and glueing them in place with ABS resin.

[ratbyk]

Crack Repair

I would suggest that you drill a hole at the end of each crack. Possibly 1/4". This should contain the crack so that it does not continue to; " grow" after your repair.
Ken/Sooke
78E Ratbyk
82 FT500 "lilRat"

[mitch]

repair

The body shop i use for the car lot has a plastic welder of sorts he has fixed bumper covers etc for me . he said he will repair my saddle bag this winter . So u might check out your local body shops. The work he has done was perfect ................. MITCH

[Pat Kelly]

I just (Saturday) got my Pacifico fairing back from being repaired (again).
This fairing is plastic and not fiberglass so fiberglass WILL NOT stick to it.
It had to be plastic welded. The welders are available at Harbor Freight for around $45.00.
The first repair he did was to the area where my fairing mounts to the bike. His repair held up fine but a year later it bloke on the other side.
I got another fairing off Ebay and it was cracked at the windshield. Looked like the windshield was hit and pulled all the threaded inserts out. This part of the fairing was unrepairable. What he ended up doing was cut out the windshield area of both fairing and splice/weld the good windshield area (old fairing) to the fairing with the good fairing mounts (new fairing).
Now a littile bondo for one small low spot (bondo will adhere to this plastic), sand everything, then paint it.
This new fairing had a stereo and two guages in it so I'll be replacing those too. I already have an AM/FM/CD changer and 6" speakers for it. I only have to decide what two guages to put in. Definately an (electric) oul pressure guage but I can't decide to go with a voltmeter or an ammeter.

[fusionking]

voltmeter can be hooked up about anywhere ie. more user friendly