Drat! fule line deterioration, 10 years?

Posted by Chris Case [108.162.215.199] on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 13:23:07 :

No, 12.

I went out to start up my Drive Way Queen after a year. Pump the primer lever, see crud in the settling bowl. Remove the bowl, dump the contents into a pickle jar for examination. Tear up the cork gasket during removal, scrape the gasket off, losing the filter screen. Find the sreen cut a new gasket out of a sheet. Re-assemble, get it cranked up, drive a mile and check the bowl. 1/2" of crud.

Dump the pickle jar on a paper plate to dry. Exam shows what looks like brown sand, but is soft enough to smear on the paper plate. Only one thing it can be, deteriorating rubber hose lining.

Doulbe drat, my phine was on the bumpoer at the sart of the yest drive. I'm out of here...

• PS/Alt bracket, poics 44-50

Follow Ups:

• Re: Drat! fule line deterioration, 10 years? - Tom Petroff (IL) 13:57:15 08/21/2019
  • Re: Drat! fule line deterioration, 10 years? - Chris Case 14:18:13 08/21/2019
    • Re: Drat! fule line deterioration, 10 years? - mannyc 11:40:38 08/22/2019
• LOVE the rubber phone protector - Chris Case 13:26:49 08/21/2019
  • Re: LOVE the rubber phone protector - Kaegi 17:51:52 08/21/2019
    • Lake Powell to San Diego- - Chris Case 21:54:16 08/21/2019
      • Re: Lake Powell to San Diego- - Kaegi 02:10:48 08/23/2019
        • Re: Lake Powell to San Diego- - Russ Roth 14:00:22 08/23/2019
          • Re: Lake Powell to San Diego- - Kaegi 20:13:38 08/23/2019
  • Wow, lucky you! Ntxt - Matt Wilson 15:44:16 08/21/2019

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