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Re: penny wise pound foolish...

To: Daniel Neuman <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: penny wise pound foolish...
From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:45:26 -0700
Ouch!
I thought I was the only "clever" person on the list.  We don't want to compare
stories...like the time I put too much gasket sealer on my oil pan and the 
gasket
ooshed out the sides of my oil pan like peanut butter.....
Guy

Daniel Neuman wrote:

> Hello All,
>         Well I tought that I was being clever and now its come round to bite
> me on the ...
>         To install my oxygen sensor I had to drill a 7/8" hole in the exhaust
> pipe. Then I was supposeed to have the sensor mount welded in.. well the 
>exhaust
> pipe is aluminum and the sensor mount is probably mild steel and my MIG welder
> won't do that without special gass-wire...So I used everybodys favorite JB 
>cold
> weld... Well it lasted about 10 minutes into my first test drive and either I
> hit something with the sensor or it just got to hot and gave way... Now I have
> the sensor mount coated with cold weld and nothing onthe exhaust pipe.
> Hopefully these sensor mounts are a common item that muffler shops carry..and
> hopefully I can get a muffler shop to weld me in a new mount. Or else I am
> going to have a  rather large hole in my exhaust pipe.....
>
>                         DAniel 69 2000
>                         SF CA

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