Easy Fix???

[outdooz]

I found a very very sma crack in my carb today. It's near the air filter body gasket. I'm don't want to buy a whole new carb so whY can I do to seal it alittle

 

[Russ2251]

A dab of JB Weld will fix it nice.

 

[outdooz]

went to bolt the carb down today and the crack got bigger, so I had to order a new one off of ebay!!!

 

[Russ2251]

Carb bolts should be just snug. Do not over tighten. Use a new gasket.

 

[outdooz]

Yeah I bought it off eBay and it comes with these things assembled
air filter
air filter body
carbuator. With gaskets
intake pipe. With gasket
and govenor
all this stuff is put together so all I have to do is bolt it on.

 

[freakboy]

seems kinda like a waist buying it while all you had to do was jb weld the crack up which jb weld cost like 4 bucks at your local hardware store...

 

[outdooz]

Well. I got a new air cleaner for 20 bucks with all the the other stuff. So it was kinda worth it

 

[Russ2251]

If crack was spreading I doubt that JB Weld would have held.

 

[outdooz]

Yes it was getting bigger when I was screwing in on.

 

[freakboy]

Im sure it would have been able to hold it as long as he properly cleaned and degreased the carb and applyed it properly.

 

[anderkart]

Im sure it would have been able to hold it as long as he properly cleaned and degreased the carb and applyed it properly.

Good advice, but when I was younger I used to start out a lot of sentences with terms like I'm sure too. Then after I ran into all kinds of totally bizarre situations where I was proved wrong, I learned to use words like I've found and sometimes instead

I've found that drilling a hole at the end(s) of a crack before gluing/welding/whatever can sometimes help keep it from spreading further.

 

[outdooz]

Good advice, but when I was younger I used to start out a lot of sentences with terms like I'm sure too. Then after I ran into all kinds of totally bizarre situations where I was proved wrong, I learned to use words like I've found and sometimes instead

I've found that drilling a hole at the end(s) of a crack before gluing/welding/whatever can sometimes help keep it from spreading further.

I have to start trieing that.

 

[Badot]

I've found that drilling a hole at the end(s) of a crack before gluing/welding/whatever can sometimes help keep it from spreading further.

Yep, same reason most screws/bolts have a little tiny round between the head and the shank. It distributes the force across the round rather than focusing it on a single point if there were a hard angle.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

I have found...

Okay, umm... "I would suggest"
*Putting masking tape over the open ends of the carb
*Using a dremel or similar die grinder with an engraving bit or tiny burr to vee out the crack over its length
*Roughing up the area around the repair with coarse sandpaper
*cleaning the daylights out of the repair area with acetone, laquer thinner, or methyl hydrate
*then applying the JB Weld into the "v" and slightly overlapping onto the roughed up area

I have had great success repairing many aluminum things in the past- including a massive crack in the water jacket of the intake manifold of a 4cyl 1985 Mustang, using this method.

 

[freakboy]

Good advice, but when I was younger I used to start out a lot of sentences with terms like I'm sure too. Then after I ran into all kinds of totally bizarre situations where I was proved wrong, I learned to use words like I've found and sometimes instead

I've found that drilling a hole at the end(s) of a crack before gluing/welding/whatever can sometimes help keep it from spreading further.

I heard about doing that but i completely forgot thanks!

 

[outdooz]

Better yet I just bought a new carb

 

[landuse]

Good advice, but when I was younger I used to start out a lot of sentences with terms like I'm sure too. Then after I ran into all kinds of totally bizarre situations where I was proved wrong, I learned to use words like I've found and sometimes instead

I've found that drilling a hole at the end(s) of a crack before gluing/welding/whatever can sometimes help keep it from spreading further.

The hole drilling idea also works really well if you have a crack that is spreading in your cars windscreen. Stops the crack dead in its tracks.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

The hole drilling idea also works really well if you have a crack that is spreading in your cars windscreen. Stops the crack dead in its tracks.

You drilled a hole thru a laminated safety glass car windshield?!?!?!?!

 

[devino246]

You drilled a hole thru a laminated safety glass car windshield?!?!?!?!

 

[Russ2251]

I have.