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    Rear Tank Sending Unit Wire Repaired

    I went to install the Rear Tank Sending Unit which I had modified some weeks ago and thoroughly tested for action. I thought it was good to go. Heading across the porch, on my way to drop it in the tank, I thought "That wire is not connected" Sure enough, that solid-core Dark Green wire that...
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    Leaking fuel tank selector valve?

    Don't siphon......; just drill several zip-tie holes around the rim of a couple 5-gallon buckets and place them in strategic locations. Take a line loose and have your assistant zip-tie it to the bucket top such that the fuel goes in the bucket. Just don't get this started and then head off...
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    Leaking fuel tank selector valve?

    Also, there is no need to go all out on some expensive name-brand valves; most all of them are made in the same Chinese factory and all have the same internals. I have had expensive name-brand valves apart and el-cheapo Chinese ones apart and I can see no difference nor reason to spend all that...
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    Leaking fuel tank selector valve?

    I will add this, you can slide ordinary rubber fuel line over the cut plastic line and double-clamp it leak free for years and years. It is easy to slide as much as a foot of the plastic inside the rubber. There are two sizes; the Grey Return lines are ?I think? 5/16" O.D. and the Blue Draw...
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    Leaking fuel tank selector valve?

    DELETE DELETE DELETE I hit a wrong button and it won't let me delete this.
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    Leaking fuel tank selector valve?

    I am a self-made professional expert when it comes to brass manual tank selector valves; I have used them for years and years and know all their strengths and weaknesses. I strongly recommend you avoid the long ones like the link above that switch both Draw and Return and instead use two...
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    Chronic repeated mouse/rat problem

    Have you ever chewed on a *** of Reynold's Wrap ? You won't chew long. Mice don't like it either. For a big hole like that, pack it loosely with wadded up Reynold's Wrap; maybe a bit of acrylic silicone caulk to hold the Reynold's Wrap in place. No mouse will ever try to get past the...
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    Chronic repeated mouse/rat problem

    I am not particularly scared of a mouse, in fact, not scared at all; until, I poke my hand down in a feed barrel and one climbs my arm like lightning, glances off the side of my head, and heads for points unknown.
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    gas cans, do you think this guy is right?

    That's two nailed and cut the nail off with a saw; don't any of you guys carry bolt-cutters ?
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    Aggressive unidentifiable shake.

    Could be a bad drive-shaft slip-yoke. Could be a bad carrier-bearing. Most mechanical stuff vibrating that bad will soon show itself - which is actually cheaper than trying to find the problem. If stupid radial tires, that is the first place to look --- but, you replaced the tires and the...
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    gas cans, do you think this guy is right?

    The highly flammable tire/tube cleaning fluid used in preparation of applying a patch, sold under a dozen or more tire supply names by the route trucks that handle tire repair supplies, is 100% Naptha, available at Ace Hardware for about a third what it costs in the tire supply branded cans.
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    gas cans, do you think this guy is right?

    When I was a kid, anything that came back from the local dry-cleaners always smelled strongly like Kerosene. If you were sent in there to pick something up, the smell was so strong as to make your head roar and your eyes burn.
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    gas cans, do you think this guy is right?

    I am old enough to have pumped many a gallon of genuine leaded gasoline into a large-mouth GLASS pickle-dog jar for people's lawnmowers; they would take a sheet of newspaper and roll a funnel. If you were lucky, you could get ahold of one of those thick brown glass jugs that had the smaller...
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    Chronic repeated mouse/rat problem

    How do you get in on that ? I buy a ton of stuff from Amazon and leave lots of reviews and they have never offered me anything FREE. I have read where people were looking for a particular something and they look "on Vine" to see what is available for FREE before looking elsewhere.
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    Chronic repeated mouse/rat problem

    I haven't read it all; but, so far, nobody has mentioned good old poison. They sell it by the trailer loads at the local feed mill. Two kinds are deadly and the only ones the feed mill sells. One looks like some sort of peanut candy bar and the brand-name is "Just One Bite" The other, I...
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