If you want some real surprises in the supermarket go visit Iceland( no not that one ) I went there a while ago, fantastic country , nature is awesome, people are great but omg shopping is outrageous!
I want to forget today, it’s been a costly disaster. Carole’s Diavel started to misfire on the way home from Germany so I thought dodgy petrol or horizontal coil pack because it had a drenching. Talked it through and decided as I have a new petrol tank cover for the bike, I’d remove the petrol tank and replace the fuel filter. Okay, so far so good. Got everything stripped down and changed the fuel filter and that is when it all went wrong. Put everything back together, filled the tank and hit the starter button. The engine cranked over okay but didn’t make any attempt to fire. Left it for 10 minutes and turned the ignition on, no pump priming, shit, shit, shit. Okay strip the whole thing down and it looks like I’ve put the pump in 180 degrees out. Start to take the pump out and 2 of the 6 captive nuts embedded in the plastic tank just turn and I have to lever the damn things out to get the pump off. Right royally buggered the tank probably beyond repair unless there is an adhesive/filler that will bond brass to plastic which I’ve not heard of so it’ll have to be a new tank. Ducati are on holiday so Carole is without her bike for at least another week at least so double shit, shit, shit. I’m hungry, tired and thoroughly pissed off at myself and I’ve got no beer in the house. Andy
Ooooo! Any good deals at the Craft Shop? Just got back from running to the store to pick up some, coincidentally @Android853sp , epoxy putty. Today I was trying to finish up a snowmobile repair requiring installing the carbs and replacing the cracked oil reservoir. After cleaning the used reservoir I bought months ago, I discovered it also has a tiny crack in the same place. Instead of removing the original tank I'm going to try and fix it. Supposedly this stuff works pretty good.
if they are Brass inserts could you not remove them and fit Riv nuts. People often replace well nuts with rivnuts
Embedded in the tank during the moulding process. Sadly the mating flange is distorted as well. No way round it, it's a new tank. Andy
An epoxy repair will be stronger than an over-moulded insert (they only take a bout 10-12Nm of torque to turn as new) - but if the flange is fooked then maybe it's a non starter anyway... is it too distorted to seal and how did it distort? It could be like it from new and seal as it's fastened?
Where the insert has pulled out of the plastic, the edges of the hole are raised and and at the base of the raised bit is an undercut where the plastic has stretched. Safe to say it's fubarred and to add to my expense, it would appeared I dropped a part of the fuel pump assembly when I changed the filter so the assembly leaks. Did not have a good day yesterday. Andy
Good luck with that! We’ve driven to Morzine. Now getting sorted in the chalet and then we’ll explore this afternoon
My next door neighbour knocked on my front door this morning, wearing a see-through negligee, and wanting to borrow a cup of sugar, then winking at me and asking if I wanted to pop over for half an hour? I said "Fuck off Eric, - I've got to go to work"
I’m waiting for the local wasp man I had an invasion of wasps in my bedroom at 4.30 as soon as I put my light on there they were Scared the life out of me Done my early shift Consultant appoint at 12.30 Fingers crossed for stable bloods
