Yeah but are you having fun yet?
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
To: <Lancer7676@aol.com>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Original Fuel Line
> I actually took two days off from work, as the trains I work on make round
> trips. So, today was spent just fixing what i "bunged up" yesterday. The
glass
> cutters in town all seen to get their mirror glass from the same
distributors,
> who only provide 1/8th inch thick glass as the smallest size. I went to
the
> nearest home center and bought one 12 inch square glass mirror tile
(suggested by
> the girl at the glass cutter). The original glass I sat on was produced
in
> Taiwan (where all our quality repros come from) and I'm guessing it is a
metric
> thickness. The glass tile from Home Depot was about a 32nd thicker. I'll
> probably break it making it fit. ($5.00 to get it cut and $1.58 to buy
it) A
> new repro mirror from M*** or VB is $50-55 bucks!
> After many calls to auto parts stores, hardware stores and hydraulic
supply
> houses no 12 foot length of thin wall steel tubing to make a new fuel line
could
> be found. Aircraft Spruce only supplied ChromeMoly tubing (too hard) and
the
> hydraulic supply house only had thick wall steel tubing for high pressure
> applications (again difficult to make the two 360 degree bends). All
other
> places I called only had 5 foot lengths or smaller. I finally called
Classic tube
> and they are sending me a nice 12 foot piece of thin wall steel tubing to
bend to
> my hearts desire for 7 bucks. 2 days and I still haven't got anything
done on my
> car.
> Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
>
> Lancer7676@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 5/25/99 10:24:02 PM EST, macleans@earthlink.net
writes:
> >
> > << I knew I should have gone to work today. >>
> >
> > Mike:
> >
> > Some days things just bung up it seems. I have hit a wall with my
welding
> > and it seems that when I go to my shop nowadays I flit about like a
whirling
> > dervish looking for something significant to do and end up only
piddling. No
> > progress.
> >
> > The gasoline line leading into the tank? When I attempted to remove my
line
> > from the tank by unscrewing that fitting everything broke off down in
there.
> > I solved the problem by cutting a short piece of fuel line that would
either
> > slip over or into (don't remember which--that was about 2 years ago) the
> > outlet hole and completely filling the crevice with epoxy. It is solid
and
> > leakproof. I will couple it with a short length of gasoline hose and a
> > couple of clamps. Sounds like you were able to save the fitting so you
may
> > not be as desparate as I was. 8^)
> >
> > --David
>
>
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