NFB: a little JB Weld?

[TraceZ]

Earlier this year my dad's snowblower started running like crap so he bought a new one and gave the crappy one to me. I removed the carb and rebuilt it. Getting the carb off the blower was hard because everything fits so tight.

I replaced the carb and it ran great, It really screamed and threw snow clear into the street, further than ever before.

Today I was clearing the driveway, it was really screaming and *BANG*. It seized up hard. I noticed immediatly some gas splash out of it and looked at the engine to find a hole in the block with some guts hanging out.

I tore it all down to find out why it was running at such a high RPM. Apparently it has a governor that I didn't see when I removed the carb so I never hooked it back up again after rebuilding it. It had been running at WOT constantly. Oops!

I'm thinking a bit of JB weld will hold it back together good as new. I can
patch the hole in the block and piece the rod back together.

[Dave M]

At least it happened on the snowblower and not the Z!

[95z28]

JB weld can fix any thing, even a dsm head gasket

[Blazer]

What is a snowblower. Anyway use JB weld it is great. An when you get it running install NOS on it it will throw real far.

[Jeff_in_Atl]

My X father-in-law said he used to have an old Vega that burned a hole in one of the pistons. He took a bolt and JB welded it in the piston and put it back together. He said it ran great and was still running when he sold it several years later.

[Black97]

If all else fails try the duck tape. If I remember right you did a pretty good job with it on covering up your car.















Duckin and running

[Jeff_in_Atl]

If all else fails try the duck tape. If I remember right you did a pretty good job with it on covering up your car.




Duckin and running

Down here they call that Georgia chrome.

[fastTa]

If all else fails try the duck tape. If I remember right you did a pretty good job with it on covering up your car.

You know what's funny.........I've never seen duct tape on a duct!

[TraceZ]

If all else fails try the duck tape. If I remember right you did a pretty good job with it on covering up your car.

At least I didnt use any coat hangers or bailing wire!

You know what's funny.........I've never seen duct tape on a duct!

I actually have it on the ducts in my basemant. When I finished the extra room, I used it on the joints to make them nice and air tight. I've never seen it anywhere else on a duct, though.

[95z28]

Its like the golden rule of fixing if it doenst move and it should use wd40 if it shouldnt move and it does duct tape will do the job

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

At least I didnt use any coat hangers or bailing wire!




I actually have it on the ducts in my basemant. When I finished the extra room, I used it on the joints to make them nice and air tight. I've never seen it anywhere else on a duct, though.

I installed some ducts before, and we always use duct tape. If you need for something to hold together real good, like the front of your racecar is falling off, you need 100 mile an hour tape - the green stuff from the military. There might even be better tape than that because most race cars go a lot faster than 100 miles an hour.

As for JB weld, I had some of that stuff holding in a valve seat in a Harley panhead exhaust port since '82, and it was still there when I finally rebuilt the heads in '95. Might work for an engine block, but if you want to repair that con rod, you're going to have to have it welded with real metal.

[fastTa]

Chances are that is a powdered metal connecting rod and JB Weld will not keep it together. Also looks like the skirt of the piston was damaged, most likely when the wrist pin came out. At the least you will need a new piston, new rod, and maybe a new wrist pin and spiro-locks.

The odds of you getting the rod bearing geometry aligned again by welding it back together are slim to .

[TraceZ]

You guys thought i was serious?







A new shortblock is $145.00. I was kidding about the JB weld. Jeesh!