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[yotawheeler]

you could prolly borrow the one out of my blue truck for the trip down...but im not interested in parting with it...so long as u got it back up to my parents place. lemme know and i can give them a heads up if you want to pick it up to borrow. they will still need the tank to move my truck around the yard so....can only be a short term type deal...

 

[seapotato]

for that matter, I have a fuel tank from a honda o/b . extend the fuel line, and chuck it in the back.

 

[hellbent40]

i have a spare under the seat tank...

 

[wombat]

dont listen to seapotato he is the kind of guy who would try to mate a land cruiser with a land rover and then have to deal with joseph lucas the prince of darkness to fix all the electrical bugs.

 

[seapotato]

dont listen to seapotato he is the kind of guy who would try to mate a land cruiser with a land rover and then have to deal with joseph lucas the prince of darkness to fix all the electrical bugs.

noooooo prince of darkness here...



first thing I did was use a torch to hack out anything mechanical ,second thing was tear out every inch of wire ...


then I made a pile at the end of the driveway of all the excess crap, ie, everything other than body panels and doors, where it all disappeared in a puff of logic.

I may be dumb, but I ain't THAT dumb...

at present, it's actually 98% functional, and being usefull as a yard tractor, until I can get around to building an exhaust for it.


Just picked up an exhaust flaring tool at P/A to make that a bit easier,tho it bears an unsettling resemblance to the 'pear of anguish' (dont google that)

but christ knows when I'll get around building it...

building a porch, and figgering out how to get a keel off a sailboat and lower it onto the ground so I can get it out of my driveway, without hiring an expensive crane truck...

 

[wombat]

i stand corrected,your mama didnt raise no fool.

 

[seapotato]

i stand corrected,your mama didnt raise no fool.

oh I wouldn't go that far....pretty sure she wouldn't....


and for the record, I didn't just make them mate, I made them have deviant freaky roughsex while I took pictures to post on the internet...

 

[Toshi38]

I have a solution for your keel problem... http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/tls/1348531336.html:D

building a porch, and figgering out how to get a keel off a sailboat and lower it onto the ground so I can get it out of my driveway, without hiring an expensive crane truck...

 

[seapotato]

I have a solution for your keel problem... http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/tls/1348531336.html:D

(hit space bar before adding smiley to craigslist link....)


s*** son, for 500 bucks I could just remove a couple stands and give it a swift kick...cept I kinda want to keep the boat...

may just give up and hire a hiab truck for a couple hours. probably easiest in the end.

 

[Toshi38]

my dad's buddy has one... what kind of weight does your boat have? ... I can see if he's driving by and wants a case of beer once I get back... if he hasn't broken the truck again!

 

[wombat]

what if we got 4-6 cruiserheads with jackalls and tugstraps all lifting together??

 

[Toshi38]

what if we got 4-6 cruiserheads with jackalls and tugstraps all lifting together??

I have a jackall and a tug strap... I also have an old saturn s-series we can use in case the boat needs to fall on something...

 

[seapotato]

I have a jackall and a tug strap... I also have an old saturn s-series we can use in case the boat needs to fall on something...

yeah polymer...that s***s soft, buddy used to have one...I fell on it a few times...( we drank a lot back then...)


boat weighs about #1300 or therabouts. keels about #700 . So all told, it'll need about #2-2500 capacity.

Trouble is it's so damn tall, so jacks and such get a tad sketchy. and the stands it's on don't have much adjustment so I can't use them.



I know I took some pics of it, but can't find em right now, tho that could just be me...did most of an all nighter sailing a boat down to vic last night....brain needs sleep.

But yeah, if there's access to a cheap hiab that can handle that out there, I'm into it.

but right now it's time for a nap...

 

[Toshi38]

So I'm up island the plan is to put my reserve tank in and run on that until I can find an acceptable main tank.

Just one problem: the reserve does not have a return line.

How do I hook it up?

Any ideas would be great!

The lines it has:
main line that used to go to the engine. The big 2 inch line that goes to the filler. and the little line that also goes to the filler.

Can I just put a y connector on the little one attached to the filler neck or something?

 

[Toshi38]

So my buddy suggested splicing the return into the feed line with a T connector. is there any reason I can't do this?

 

[Toshi38]

alright so a bit of research and all I can seem to find is a couple of comments about it being next to impossible to bleed but couldn't I just put a valve out or disconnect the hose for bleeding?

Any comments?

 

[yotawheeler]

just run a 5 gallon boat tank? thats whats in my 45 at the moment...works alright, runs right from the tank to the fuel pump....engine goes fine....dunno, might be just easier

 

[Toshi38]

does the boat tank have a return line? also I'm kinda thinking more permanent ...

 

[yotawheeler]

ah...no, no return line. i thought it was just a temp kinda fix. all i have (going off of memory here) is a soft line running through the floor to the fuel pump. i thought you were just going to be bringen it back down island again and getting the old tank re-coated...

 

[Toshi38]

ya I dunno... I'm up in the air about what I want to do... ideally I'd like to find some sort of permanent fix... I'll try this T junction business and see what happens...