Date:         Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:12:30 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil leak at filler tube
Comments: To: Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA
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Why not just wrap the tube with plastic electrical tape and see if that
is the leaking joint?
The boiling water thing works great.
You can stretch it out or tighten a hose clamp on it before you dip it in
the boiling water and shrink it also.
My mother uses a walker and it has rear feet that skid and wear out.
The replacement feet are about $6.00 each.
That's how the word gets revenge if you ever draw social security, high
priced 'anything that is health care'.
Anyway I but PVC end caps at Ace hardware for sixty cents each, boil them
and put them on the legs and they not only look the same, they do the
same thing. Wear out in about three weeks just like the $6.00 ones.
A handy $10.00 savings for two minutes work.

Stan

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:18:20 -0300 Malcolm Stebbins
<Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA> writes:
> Some earlier (air cooled maybe) just slip on with a bolt.  My 91 is
> pressure fit.  I tried to remove the plastic sleeve from the metal
> tube
> (another van) and I had a VERY hard time getting them to separate
> (I
> had to crush the metal pipe).  It's off and waiting for me to figure
> out
> how to get the plastic part on my van's metal tube.  It has been
> mentioned to boil the plastic in water to make it more pliable but
> I
> have no first-hand experience with this.  Malcolm
>
> > I have the dreaded spraying oil problem. It looks like my leak
> > (slight) is it the union of the plastic portion of the filler tube
> and
> > the metal portion. How do these go together?
>
>

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