At 08:04 5/17/99 -0400, ROBERT A COPICH wrote:
>Well as I was driving through rural PA my fuel rail broke sending gas all
>over the exhaust manifold. No help in sight. I removed the fuel rail made
>(of plastic) The end that broke must have been made of steel and rusted off.
>I noticed that the hole had the same diameter as a penny so....
>I jammed one in (found under floor mat) And used some 5 min epoxy to hold it
>fast.  It got me home!!!!  To be reaired permanently today.

The end is a plastic cap with an O-ring.  It is held on by a metal sleeve
crimped over the lip.  When the ring rusts off, the fuel pressure pops the
cap off and voila!

I would replastic it myself, rather than reairing it <g>.  My experience
with epoxy in contact with gasoline or gasoline fumes is that it turns
rubbery after six months or so.  When mine popped off I was able to
retrieve the cap, as it happened on startup, and used a regular US-style
band clamp, tightened moderately and with the edges staked down over the
lip in several places.  But I kept it for a spare -- I got a replacement
from a junkyard.  I'm going out to paint those rings with zinc paint right now!

david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net