Hose carrying 2-stroke oil: Leaking

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Hello,

Recently, I discovered a leak on my RG150. I had R6_Kid take a look at it, he figured out what it was, it was a hose carrying 2-Stroke oil (He said it was a backpressure hose I think).

He patched it up with duct tape, it was sweet for about a month, but now its leaking again.




Note these 2 hoses. One of them is pretty badly split, and is leaking oil

Where can I take my RG150 to get the hose replaced? I don't want to mess with it myself. Simply because I don't know how. But if one of you KBers feel up to it, I will pay with beer

[xwhatsit]

Leak 2... isn't that your clutch cable? Unless you're pointing to something on the left of it? Can't quite see what that arrow is pointing at, your clutch cable won't be leaking because it doesn't contain any fluid (apart from lubricant).

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My bad, should have been more clear. It's actually pointing to the cable BEHIND the clutch cable, where oil has leaked and run down there. It's not actually leaking at that point.

One of those hoses (I don't remember which one) is split (badly, I might add) and needs to be replaced. Probably a 5 minute job but I have no idea how

[xwhatsit]

Oh yep I see now. It should be possible to buy those hoses at the correct length from a Suzuki parts place. I can buy any sort of hose for my bike (even the crankcase breather pipe), they're an official part even. However that will be expensive, although much more convenient than cutting it yourself.

Best to replace them, rather than attempting another repair. My experience dealing with watercooling setups in electronics is that once a hose splits and starts leaking, it's in bad condition all over the hose and if you repair the first split, another one will inevitably pop up.

If you really don't want to do it yourself, I imagine it would be a pretty cheap job at a motorcycle shop (say $35 labour, and whatever a new hose costs). I got prompt and relatively good service from Mt Eden Motorcycles recently.

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Oh yep I see now. It should be possible to buy those hoses at the correct length from a Suzuki parts place. I can buy any sort of hose for my bike (even the crankcase breather pipe), they're an official part even. However that will be expensive, although much more convenient than cutting it yourself.

Best to replace them, rather than attempting another repair. My experience dealing with watercooling setups in electronics is that once a hose splits and starts leaking, it's in bad condition all over the hose and if you repair the first split, another one will inevitably pop up.

If you really don't want to do it yourself, I imagine it would be a pretty cheap job at a motorcycle shop (say $35 labour, and whatever a new hose costs). I got prompt and relatively good service from Mt Eden Motorcycles recently.

Did you have a similar problem with the hose leaking?

I'll leave this thread for a bit, if no one offers to help, I guess my only alternative is to go to Mt. Eden Motorcycles.

[xwhatsit]

No I didn't, but at one stage I looked at getting a crankcase breather tube because mine is a bit cracked, and I was surprised to see it on parts fiches as a proper part number, along with fuel lines and carb float bowl drain tubes. However I didn't replace it because a crankcase breather tube isn't very important because there's hardly ever oil in it unless I overfill.

Get a quote from them first. If it's horrific, see if you can do it yourself. Not a hard job, except it might be messy if the other end of that hose is attached to an oil reservoir!

[Mr. Peanut]

Easy. Get a container and drain your two stroke oil out.

Take the hose's (may as well do all of them) into a hydraulics shop, or a good motoring store, and get another cut to the same length.

Go home, and plug them back on (you could get some new clips too).

If you can do it with a garden hose, this shouldn't be a problem. You've done well so far!

[TygerTung]

Go to para rubber and get some more tube, cut it to length with some sizzors and then push it onto the nipples. Won't be a hard job by any means.

[R6_kid:Me]

Easy. Get a container and drain your two stroke oil out.

Take the hose's (may as well do all of them) into a hydraulics shop, or a good motoring store, and get another cut to the same length.

Go home, and plug them back on (you could get some new clips too).

If you can do it with a garden hose, this shouldn't be a problem. You've done well so far!

From memory its not that simple. It's not your usual rubber hose, otherwise i would have given him a final fix the day i was over there. The piping is of a fixed length with a clamped fitting on the end (to take open the fitting would fuck it and render it useless).

I think you're only option is to take it to a Suzuki shop (i suggest Colemans on K Rd) and get them to look at it. They should be able to tell you pretty quickly how much to replace those pipes, and have a look at the other leak at the same time.

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I jsut got back from Mt Eden MC. The guy had a look at it, ripped off the hose that R6_Kid taped up, and said he would replace it with some clear hose. I was told it would cost me around $35.

What do you reckon? Still worth going to Colemans?