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Subject:Re: Oil filler tube extension pulled out.-- Well shiver me timbers
From:neil
Date:Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:13:11 -0400

--- John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

> Roger Sisler wrote:
> > the extension manages to come out with a single
> ring around the extension.
> > It will not grip the tube when I put it back in.Is
> a part missing?Gorilla
> > glue??

The ring is broken off the tube?? i.e sliding on tube
when you push it in?

If so, since the plastic is so permeated with oil, is
there some kind of low profile big circlip or hose
clamp you could install below it?

Maybe insert a pin through tube below ring to keep it
from sliding down?

Cheers,

Neil Nicholson.
1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

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