All 2st Bad Design

I would like to meet whoever it was at Husky that decided putting the right radiator hose connector right behind the pipe would be a good idea. I owe them a kick in the junk. A minor spill today pushed my pipe into said hose and allowed all the coolant to leak out.



The cylinder is scored so it looks like time for a 144 kit, but I also want to do something to the radiator to prevent another incident like this from happening. I vaguely remember someone using a LH CR radiator and splicing the radiator hose to work. Any other ideas?

a good fabricator could fab up a small stop or guard on the header tank. and moving the hose bib would work, as long as the flow pattern still works. i have seen larger header tanks installed on a number of bikes, perhaps that is a route to take.

pahusky was the one that bolted up some CR radiators.
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/08-cr125-radiators-on-a-09-wr125.16206/
He's currently running a WR left and CR right.
I'm going to find a local radiator shop and see if they can swap the bottom tanks for me or at least move the right spiggot. I wouldn't mind moving the left spiggot further in as well since I caught that hose and ripped it during the last enduro

Take a look at ebay, there is a 2001 CR125 being parted right now, the lower hose is for tanks with the spiggots on the inside like your swap setup is. Looks like you could put the 2001 hose on without any funky fittings. I almost bought it incase i swap my tanks but i figured you needed it more than me!

I had noticed this and went to Napa and had taken that plastic brake wrap stuff and wrapped my hoses all up to at least lesson the contact.

All you have to do, is heat the pipe up (off the bike) where the header pipe comes out of cylinder, down to first bend. Stick a piece of pipe down it's throat (while its cherry red) and bend it out some (Not very much). Gets like that when you crash on the right side and bends the pipe in towards radiator. Keep doing it a little at a time, cause you don't need to bend it very much. I heat/pull mine out about 3/4 of in inch away from hose. Had all pipes do it including the Dyno port, which is pretty beefy.

I took an old piece of intertube and cut out about a 3" x 6" section. I wrapped the hose 2 complete loops and then added 2 zip ties. Cheap and easy protection.

I just took a hammer and put a dent in the pipe where the hose is.

Thanks for the info. I'll see how well it matches the modified radiators.

I ended up sending the radiators to Myler's and had them swap the bottom tanks for me. It cost me $100 and I shouldn't have to worry about my hoses being in harm's way anymore. I'll post up pictures of the new radiators later.

Here's how the modified radiators turned out. Shouldn't have to worried about anymore damaged hoses.

Here's the final solution all bolted up. The lower hose from a 2001 CR125 fits perfectly.

Nice job slo rider. I just found a set of WR125 rads from a '02 on fleabay for $40 last winter and got the same result. It always pays to watch the fleabay even if it is agravating.

Ballin!! Bashing pipes is lame, nice ugrade.