Today is Monday, which means you probably had a pretty bad day. To make you feel better, here’s a black-coated pug dog, in a sweater, in a little car, who’s really happy to see you.
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Last Call: Doggone Edition
25 responses to “Last Call: Doggone Edition”
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HEY BUDDY!
When I pull up to a car in traffic with a pup in the window, I try to get it’s attention.
Sometimes the driver thinks I’m nutter- but sometimes they laugh.-
I used to carry a squeaker in my car that a friend’s dog had extracted from a plush doggie toy (first they go for the eyes, then the squeaker). I’d hold it out of my window and give it a squeeze when I’d see dogs in another car… endless fun!
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Me too. I’m always calling, “Hi pup!” I’m a hopeless dog lover, like my wife and daughters.
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So, that snowmobile I just bought?
Turns out is has a gas leak, and a bad one at that.
I cleaned off, and examined it, and I have traced the leak to a pinhole in some brazing.
It looks like somebody tried and failed to fix this problem.
I bought Kreem’s fuel tank liner kit (http://www.kreem.com/fueltankliner.html), but haven’t had a chance to use it yet.
It looks like it should work, but what does the Hooniverse hive-mind think?
Is there any better ideas out there, any tried and true methods?
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Kreem (and other epoxy tank liners I’ve tried) work quite well; the devil, as always, is in the prep. Install a fuel filter as close to the tank as you can, afterwards. JB Weld is an amazingly versatile hacker’s tool, and I’ve seen it work on leaks like that – lots easier than the full-on tank liner approach. If you can fix it with a brazed patch, probably even easier & more effective long-term – but the tank better be damn free of gasoline vapor in that case.
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I don’t trust in my cleaning/welding/brazing skills to try anything like that dangerous, but it definitely seems like JB Weld is the way to go.
Thanks for the info!
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JB Weld, yes, but stay away from the JB Kwik Weld – I’ve never had good luck with that.
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Tank sealers generally are a last resort, and a temporary fix. Many of them have problems with flaking and dissolving a couple years down the road. This, you shouldn’t doubt, causes some fuel line and carb clogging. Kreem, unless they’ve changed their formula, has a reputation for this.
I had my motorcycle tank welded. I tried to seal it with brazing rod and a TIG torch, but it was beyond my skill level. There are adventurous souls who will weld your gas tank.
Clean the thing out as much as you can! Even with multiple treatments from POR-15 (great product line, you may do well to look in to their MC Tank Kit) tank cleaner, isopropyl alcohol and other flushes, mine flared up. There’s varnish in there, and it’s hard to get out. Doesn’t burn very much, tho!
Lastly, have it pressure tested with gasoline, not water. Water is a chunkier molecule than gasoline, and gas can seep through places where pressurized water won’t flow.-
Thanks for the warning about the Kreem.
I would like to take this in to get welded, but I doubt the machine is worth it. Even so, the gas tank is an integral, welded in part of the tunnel (frame) of the snowmobile.
This also makes cleaning difficult, but I am willing to attempt it to the best of my abilities.
Thank you for helping to clear this up for me.
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You can rub a bar of soap across the leak as a temporary fix, until it gets wet with water.
If the leak is in a flat enough area and appearance isn’t an issue, a sheet metal screw with a rubber washer — the kind for attaching panels on metal buildings — should work longer term. Don’t use a power drill because of sparks. JB Weld it in place.
http://image.made-in-china.com/43f34j00gsitIGzHRfuM/Galvanized-Hex-Head-Self-Drilling-Screws-with-Rubber-Washer.jpg-
Yeah, the leak is right on a seam, so the screw wouldn’t work.
I will look into the JB Weld though…
Thanks!
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i’ve had limited success with soldering m/cycle tanks, temporary at best
brazing is feasible, i repaired an old honda tank that way, just flush the tank with water for a while, then fill the tank with more water which not only displaces the fuel vapour but even if there was a small flash the water will quench it, the other way i’ve seen it done is just fire up the oxy torch and stick it inside the tank, it WILL flash but at least it’s out of the way then……..
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Punctured the fuel tank several times 77truck kiddo, back in the 1985. Once I sent Granddads’ hay field on fire, ALL of it – have witnesses !
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That. Is. Badass.
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Thank you Sir- If you were near our road in 1985, the bird was the word ( dad wouldn’t let me get a jeep – I owned a tommy gun though – but NO jeeps ….farming was tractors.
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I believe the term you’re looking for is bitchin’.
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Your Camero was too bitchin’ for that yard*.
* Yeah, I know, a field not a yard and your grandpa’s not your neighbor’s, but… EXXON CREDIT CARD.-
1986
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those dogs are evil, they just entice you in with the little cute thing, the sticky out bug eyes and then…BAM, they’ll piss on your trouser leg when you’re not looking….i know this from personal experience
mind you, my irish wolfhound will do the same thing given half a chance, and that can involve a whole lot more urine -
Friggin’ traffic on the commute keeps getting worse. At this point it is only a stubborn streak with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance keeping me working the three pedals and shifter in the least satisfying manner imaginable. Thinking about the dark side. Forgive me.
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Have to take the bad with the good.
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Attempting a constructive feedback avoiding the dark side:
a) New job, new opportunities?
b) Bike – engine, feet/electric or voodoo? I know you have a long commute, but, boy, this can improve the commute massively!
c) New house closer to work?
d) Back roads!
e) Become a Uber truck driver through the fields and exploit low gas prices to the fullest:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/ZiL-157_truck_in_Russia.jpg-
The downside of living in a massive city is, alas, there are no back roads. I’m 30 miles one way. Closer in means more money, unless I move my family in to that truck or a neighborhood resembling the war zone that it was designed for. I guess that the kids could play with the Uber passengers to pass the time.
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There you go – dark side avoided.
It is pretty amazing though to think about a 30 miles commute – pretty much double mine, and I live almost off the grid. At least when it comes to public water, sewage, and broadband, which, by law, is supposed to cover 98% of the population of our country.
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Given my route options, cycling would be a harrowing experience even if my fitness were up to the challenge, to say nothing of the time commitment. I’d be up for a motorbike, as would localdivorce attorneys looking for work since Mrs. Neight can’t even say the word “motorcycle” without some reference to grisly death.
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