Rust......

On naked Bandit there are two brackets L\R that hold the covers below the front of the tank .If you take the cover off you will see they
are a U shape. This shape holds water and starts a rust process which spreads to the frame.Well it has on mine LHS the worst.(09)
I'm about to drill a small hole through mine to release the water in the future . You know how it goes, ride home wet ,park bike clean it next
week. Water sitting in U starting rust.
Bad pic. but you get the idea.

Bugger this. Now after drilling a tiny hole i realise it will drip at standstill directly onto plug cap.GRRRR.... Bad idea!
PAINT with Kill Rust, fill in u with black silicon .Better idea.
Bloody obvious now i look at the photo. Only looked at bracket before.

gus wrote:Bugger this. Now after drilling a tiny hole i realise it will drip at standstill directly onto plug cap.GRRRR.... Bad idea!
PAINT with Kill Rust, fill in u with black silicon .Better idea.
Bloody obvious now i look at the photo. Only looked at bracket before.

Silicon sounds like a good idea.
You wash and have humidity.

Cant wait to see the first hot dipped gal frame

Ah .. Kill Rust paint - great stuff - was still protecting an outside Basket Ball Ring pole 4 years after I installed it. Moved house but from recent drive pasts of the old home it is still going strong. Just not sure that I want my Bandit with a 'Heritage Green' frame!
I am trying the old - 'never ride the Bandit when there is even the threat of rain' anti-rust strategy - supported by 'waterless' paint wash products.
Don't know how long my luck can hold - but I did get from Adelaide to Melbourne and back without riding in the rain!

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Looking at that pic I would say the rust is caused more by a lack of paint in the corner of the weld holding the bracket onto the frame. The obvious fix is to get some killrust of the right color(not heritage green) in there to protect it.

whitey1 wrote:Looking at that pic I would say the rust is caused more by a lack of paint in the corner of the weld holding the bracket onto the frame. The obvious fix is to get some killrust of the right color(not heritage green) in there to protect it.

I read/heard somewhere that silicon promotes rust, I was waiting for Whitey to say that. I also heard Sikaflex is the way to go.

If you can't normally see it, then good old fish-oil or the like is an option.

Fish oil is your friend.

Acid cure silicone ( with the vinegar smell) is said by some to promote rust but neutral cure silicone allegedly has no ill effect on metal/paint.

I have rust there , just above the radiator where the frame is welded and down the bottom of the frame where there is a big daggy looking weld. Suzuki skimp out on paint I reckon, it is extremely thin. One day if I get carried away I'll strip the bike and have it painted professionally with multiple coats along with cleaning up the horrid looking welds.

I better read whats on the tube. Trying to stop the water sitting in there .

everyones worried about the rust which to me looks like water and the poor weld

BUT is that a hairline crack I see in the frame tube above ?

I spotted that ,dont think it is a crack. But i will be having a look in the morning .Will report back
No crack ,must have been lint off a cloth i used the camera has picked up .

Re-Cycled wrote:

whitey1 wrote:Looking at that pic I would say the rust is caused more by a lack of paint in the corner of the weld holding the bracket onto the frame. The obvious fix is to get some killrust of the right color(not heritage green) in there to protect it.

I read/heard somewhere that silicon promotes rust, I was waiting for Whitey to say that. I also heard Sikaflex is the way to go.

If you can't normally see it, then good old fish-oil or the like is an option.

Yep, what he said ^^^