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Re: More "Grapes of Wrath" -Reply

To: "Matt Kulka" <Matt.Kulka@hboc.com>
Subject: Re: More "Grapes of Wrath" -Reply
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 12:00:55 -0400
 Ihad a 67 Firebird once that had a similar problem. I took a bar of soap 
 and smeared some soap into the leak and it stopped. This got me around 
until I it fixed using the same epoxy - screw trick. I wonder if that 
meant I had a new detergent gasoline. ;-)

Larry Macy
78 Midget
>
>I was working in a service station, when a VW Bug pulled up which was
>leaking gas.  It turned out the gas tank had a pinhole rusted through
>the bottom.  The head mechanic took a look at the car, at the cashless
>students inside, and told me to do this.  Mixed up some epoxy, let it
>harden a little, and smeared it on a sheet metal screw.  Rolled up my
>sleeve and tightened the screw gently into the dripping pinhole. 
>Stopped the leak completely right there in the driveway.  I've always
>wondered how long they went with that makeshift repair.
>
>Years later, I drove through a big puddle in a Nissan.  The front wheel
>found a pothole which went halfway to China, and I bottomed out the
>oilpan, putting in a crease and a small hole.  I smeared some Orange
>Permatex on a sheet metal screw and threaded it right into the hole. 
>Never bothered to do anything else, and it was fine until it went to the
>junkyard after being rear-ended one day.
>

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