The other thing to use would be a product called "Goo Gone", you can get it
at most hardware stores.
Jim V.
At 02:57 PM 7/1/99 Thursday -0500, Terry Stellman wrote:
>
>Somebody else jump in and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can clean
>off the sealer stuff with mineral spirits after it dries. The mineral
>spirits shouldn't hurt the paint either.
>
>
>Terry Stellman
>1949 3600
>Missouri City, Texas
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hudson29@aol.com [SMTP:Hudson29@aol.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:28 PM
>> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
>> Subject: [oletrucks] There Is A Smart Way And Then There Is a Dumb
>> Way . . .
>>
>> Because I am basically a lazy bastard, it is not unusual for me,
>> when
>> ramping up to do a job, to read all the shop manuals, then get all the
>> parts
>> and do a run through in my mind or with the actual parts where possible. I
>>
>> try to get the proper tools lined up ahead of time, and most jobs go
>> reasonably smoothly, barring the "Unforeseen."
>> One recent job was to fix the rusty old gas tank and replace all the
>>
>> related rubber bits in the fuel system. As anyone who has ever done this
>> to
>> an AD truck can tell you, the job is not too tough, and this one proceeded
>>
>> just about as expected until I got to the final finishing touch.
>> The fuel filler pipe on the AD truck sticks out of the side of the
>> cab with a big rubber donut around it sealing it to the cab sheetmetal. My
>>
>> original donut came off in one piece, but I bought a nice quality repop
>> and
>> wanted to install it on the freshly powdercoated filler neck.
>> In eyeballing the job, an assembly sequence seemed to me to make
>> sense, and all parts were trial fitted to ensure easy assembly. To make
>> sure
>> of a good waterproof seal, a fresh tube of black silicone seal was readied
>>
>> and the neck was slipped into the fresh rubber hoses and secured with the
>> original factory clips, still in surprisingly good condition.
>> I am always a little uncomfortable working with silicone seal. The
>> stuff is difficult to wipe off cleanly and once it begins to set, there is
>> no
>> working with it at all. For that reason, I decided to smear the filler
>> tube
>> with the sealer just back where it would fit into the donut, fully
>> believing
>> that the easiest mess to clean up is the one that doesn't get made to
>> start
>> with. For the donut-to-cab seal, there was just no clean way to make this
>> joint without oozing somewhat. I would have to rely on speed of assembly
>> to
>> allow me plenty of time to clean up the inevitable mess before the
>> silicone
>> seal became intransigent.
>> As you might have guessed from the title of this story, all did not
>> go well. The problem presented itself when I tried to squeeze the rubber
>> doughnut into place. The filler neck poked through the hole as
>> anticipated,
>> but with the neck in place, there was no longer room to scootch the rubber
>>
>> doughnut enough to get the donut into place. Being a sharp cleaver lad, I
>> thought I would just FORCE it into place and picked up a very large
>> screwdriver already laid out within easy reach.
>> The top two-thirds of the donut responded to force rather well, and
>> for a while I thought I might just pull this off, but it was not to be.
>> Now I
>> am a big fellow, well known for having a strong back (and perhaps a weak
>> mind) and in 40 minutes or so of life and death struggle, I couldn't make
>> a
>> go of it. I was frustrated, tired and I had made a huge mess with drying
>> black silicone goo all over my skin, clothes, tools and worst of all, all
>> over the truck.
>> At this point, I stopped to reassess the situation. The original
>> reason for the particular assembly procedure had been to avoid making a
>> mess.
>> In this, I had clearly failed. Now, I might just as well do it the easy
>> but
>> somewhat messier way, after all, I couldn't possibly make the mess any
>> worse!
>> First, I pulled the rubber donut and fuel filler pipe back off. Next, a
>> new
>> bead of the sealer was applied to the donut and it was easily popped into
>> place.
>> The fuel filler had to go into the donut from the inside of the cab
>> and I was worried that it would push the donut back out of the hole in the
>>
>> cab so the neck too got a liberal coating of the slippery silicone goo.
>> The
>> filler pipe twisted into place easily! Retightening the hose clips
>> finished
>> the job.
>> As to the mess, I'm afraid very little could be done. The more I
>> tried to wipe it off, the worse the mess got. There is black sealer all
>> over
>> the paint and rubber donut, and although some of it rubbed off the next
>> day,
>> some remains still. Does anybody have any good way of cleaning this stuff
>> off?
>> If you are going to do this job, remember that the rubber donut goes
>>
>> into the cab first, then the filler neck goes in. It's the smart way.
>>
>> Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com
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