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DrEntropy

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Here's today's bodge, kids! Take out yer latest Moss catalogues, turn to page 97. There you will notice item number "56," part number 363-170, "TUBE, drain/dust valve." It's NA... Not Available. This is the exit for water that winds up in the heater box from outside and keeps it there instead of on your floorboards and carpets. The forty-odd year old one on Herself's car is a *BIT* nacker'd to put it mildly. So now what?

Weellll... Into the bit-pit here at Chaos & Mayhem PTY., LTD. and Dr Entropy's Hand Made Goods. A bicycle innertube, one to fit a "27x1-1/4" is a tolerable beginning. Cut a six inch section of this puppy, ~STRUGGLE~ it over the remains of the metal stub of the downpipe, shtup the lower end thru the hole in the tranny tunnel and it becomes both drain and valve in form and function! I've managed to resuscitate the original clamp in this instance but a nylon tie-wrap would work as well, certes. Keep checkin' back as we attempt to nob a seal of some efficacy from something else.

We here at Chaos & Mayhem PTY., LTD. hope this bit of semi-useless information serves to help someone in future.

Thank You for your kind attention in this matter. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
"Who ya gonna call?"

While I've got the offending bodyshell up on jack stands, I'll slide under her & pull that piece, Doc....
 
50/50 it'll be intact. But if you're feelin' froggy, man... GO fer it. Or mebbe take out some frustration and get out th' SAWZALL!!!
 
Just a hose clamp, Doc - if its on from the factory...
 
Do NOT spend an inordinate amount of time on that piece of *stuff* Tony. If it comes off clean, fine, but if it turns to a fustercluck, let it go. I ( rather SHE) can live with the bodge.
 
Wasn't even under there! But there was a new clutch slave cylinder & hose!
 
mehheh. Rarely are, and FUBAR if there.

If the cylinder is unmolested, you're into BONUS POINTS!

Thanks fer lookin' /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Somebody say sawzall?
 
You're LATE there, Missy. Just put th' SawzAll DOWN and back away slowly. It's all over. Nothing to see here....
 
I may need it for this steering wheel if I can't figure out how to get it off the columm...
 
I'm on "stand-by" in the other thread... Go over there.
 
My drain tube had about four pounds of hard dirt in it, (well maybe not quite that much). It took a lot of poking with a small rod to get it out. Believe it or not, the tube and "Duck Tail" (as I call it), are in good shape! I like the inter tube fix though. High tech. has done it again! PJ /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
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