to permanently seal the "black hole" on each side, cut two pieces of sheet
metal the correct size, tack weld in place and paint appropriate body color.
you'll never have to worry again nor will any goblins escape in the night.
Alex wrote:
>
> After three hours of wrench fiddling tonight after supper, my brand new
> clutch master cylinder is installed in the Blue Mainie. Worked from the top
> and from underneath the car.
>
> Loosening the hydraulic I/O lines was easy, except for the output line to
> the slave cylinder. That nut came loose, but there was some stiction between
> the steel line and the nut. Successive tightening and loosening with the
> help of some loose juice helped. I was thankful that the steel tubing wasn't
> permanently rusted to the nut (yuk!)
>
> I've got the parts to rebuild the clutch slave cylinder here, but it works
> okay, and I'm trying to decide whether to abide by the "if it works don't
> fix it" axiom, or the "preventative maintenance/do it now while you're
> working on the system" approach. The car is up on ramps in the garage.
>
> Although I faithfully read the viewpoints and experiences on this reflector,
> I totally forgot to heed the admonitions about the spanner goblin.
> Naturally, it gobbled my best 1/2-in wrench---whoosh! --- into the tunnel
> projecting up from the frame towards the carburetors it went!
>
> It took me almost 25 minutes of fishing with a piece of coat hanger wire to
> get it out (and, of course, the open end was pointing up and the closed box
> wrench end was pointing down in there---just to make it more challenging to
> snag).
>
> What might be a good way to permanently seal the mouth of the goblin?
>
> == Alex in Maine
> 1960 BT7 "Blue Mainie"
> Former owner 1957 100-6, 1967 BJ8
> Amateur Radio AI2Q
> http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm
>
> .-.-.
>
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