At 08:04 5/17/99 -0400, ROBERT A COPICH wrote: >Well as I was driving through rural PA my fuel rail broke sending gas all >over the exhaust manifold. No help in sight. I removed the fuel rail made >(of plastic) The end that broke must have been made of steel and rusted off. >I noticed that the hole had the same diameter as a penny so.... >I jammed one in (found under floor mat) And used some 5 min epoxy to hold it >fast. It got me home!!!! To be reaired permanently today. The end is a plastic cap with an O-ring. It is held on by a metal sleeve crimped over the lip. When the ring rusts off, the fuel pressure pops the cap off and voila! I would replastic it myself, rather than reairing it <g>. My experience with epoxy in contact with gasoline or gasoline fumes is that it turns rubbery after six months or so. When mine popped off I was able to retrieve the cap, as it happened on startup, and used a regular US-style band clamp, tightened moderately and with the edges staked down over the lip in several places. But I kept it for a spare -- I got a replacement from a junkyard. I'm going out to paint those rings with zinc paint right now! david David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net |
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