A new way to attack the "Oil Pump Leak"

[kaptnjack]

good point

[GM Guy]

I just hope the manufacturers don't decide to stop making parts for these rides as they are getting to the age where it isn't as profitable which is why a lot of parts that used to be very costly 5+ years ago are now cheaper (regardless of where they are made) to help move the stock as they have an excess of inventory building since many people don't think they are worth fixing and have sent them to the crusher.

 

BTW, there was a thread a while back about Timken bearing hubs, they are now coming from Taiwan. I try like hell to only use parts made in the USA and had to search a few stores before I located old stock. It said it was Made in the USA but the bearing races themselves were marked with Made in Brazil or some other South American country.

[kaptnjack]

Another good point.

 

I am really into the older cars.

 

This CS vert is my first and I am really enjoying the restoration and hope to keep it for the long foreseable future...forever is such an indefinite term.

 

 

ANyway...when I bought the car....I had no idea finding parts would be so hard...i am really struggling to find anything. I have resorted to recrafting, rebuilding and remanning my on parts...way more than I planned on...its an adventure.

[z34Phoenix]

well that deff is a diff way to get at the leak.

 

i have a diff way to solve the leak!

 

i have done the RTV before and it lasted a while but came back... this time i was fed up. mixture of being fustrated and just not wantting to deal with it! So i cleaned it all and then got QuickSteel Epoxy. it is a puddy like epoxy that hardens like a very hard plastic. it can take like 600* so i lifted up the plug rolled a string of the epoxy and squeezed it in. tightend everything down and let it dry (5-6 min) and no leaks. and with the way this stuff works there wont be.