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broken impeller safe to ride?

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alexander-vmann:
don't have a temp gauge, i did start it up today to see if everything works like it should and ofcourse hear the sound of my new pipe, but the new impeller is on it's way in the mail, so i wont ride it, not even up and down the drive way,

alexander-vmann:
going over the parts engine i found a impeller but it looks to have a few years on it, any things i should look for before installing it?

alexander-vmann:
here is the broken impeller

tecate3:
I have made that mistake too because mixing aluminum and steel parts to contact each other in a corrosive coolant environment always causes rust welds / parts rusted together.

I personally would not have worried to much about that and have ridden a 250 motor with broken impeller fin with no ill affects.

tecate3:
but who wants to be the guy who says , yeah dude, no problem, ride it as much as you want and then your piston melts down.

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