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[QUOTE="Nestrick, post: 798016, member: 45162"] [See photo: Left] Here’s the problem … if you look closely you can see the coolant leaking out of the puncture onto the pipe. At this point Dan and Dave had run out of options and Dave had made up his mind to pack up and leave. Neal tells them that he might be able to fix it if they want to risk his ‘operating’ on the radiator in the field … he tells them: “No guarantees!” Dave is still saying that he is really leery of going out into the boonies with a cobbled-up radiator … but a little cajoling by Dan and he relents to permit the repair. After an hour of very technical work, Neal manages to trim out all the fins attached to the punctured tube … he then carefully cut the tube perpendicular to its cross section at the puncture point … then he rolled up the tube, like a tube of tooth paste, on each side being careful to tightly pinch it as he proceeded … and finally he wrapped the finished rolls with tape and further pinched the roll as tight as possible without puncturing the wall. [See photo: Middle] The final product of Neal’s amazing radiator field repair! We filled the system with coolant, started up the CR-250 and she purred like a kitten. After several minutes, not a single drop of leakage could be detected … man, I was very impressed … Neal acted like this sort of thing happens every day and he simply went about donning his riding gear and making sandwiches for everybody. Dave was convinced … he would stay and ride! He was still very concerned, but not so much as to ride any easier. Seems that we had only been on the trail up the eastern loop of the Two Heart a few minutes when Dave cut a corner too sharp and caught a foot peg on a tree stump hidden in the brush … this led to a relatively high speed get off where the bike skidded hard on the right side before coming to a stop. The radiator repair survived even this rough treatment … still no leak and the bike was running like a champ. Dave was fine too! Amazing! [See photo: Right] Two Heart and Pine Ridge are ATV accessible, 50 inch wide, sandy and relatively open trails that are given a Difficulty Rating of 2 in the GLTR listing. They are fast and fun … and best of all, represent nearly 100 miles of ATV accessible trail that has few whoops to be found! I enjoyed riding them the most of all the trails we described in this adventure … namely because I could ride a faster pace without serious hazards along the trailside. This picture is an example of the trail at one of our rest stops … everyone was blasting along and having the time of their lives. Yes, this area was a bit dusty. [/QUOTE]
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