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jpjohns
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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:16 pm Post subject: Jackleg fuel tank repair |
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Sorry but I had to post this in a separate topic. If your going to do a repair, do it right. I was going to repair my fuel tank but I removed it today to find it full of rust (which was expected) and found that the PO used pennies....yes PENNIES....to repair holes under the tank. Who the hell does this? Idiots I say!
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: Jackleg fuel tank repair |
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Sorry but I had to post this in a separate topic. If your going to do a repair, do it right. I was going to repair my fuel tank but I removed it today to find it full of rust (which was expected) and found that the PO used pennies....yes PENNIES....to repair holes under the tank. Who the hell does this? Idiots I say!
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Heath Robinson. There's a lot of Heath Robinson improvisation in our Ghias. My PO chopped off the top of the seatbacks - unique on the '68 - to turn them into lowbacks. The effort and cost to fix that put a huge dent in my time and money budgets. And caused the seller to describe the car as a '67.
The philistines are everywhere.
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jwold
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| Well, at least they wouldn't rust out! |
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c21darrel
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kiwighia68
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Gotta remember... these became cheap cars, owned by cheap people who did cheap repairs. Thats a new one tho :?
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I think Heath is an early version of McGuyver. In the novel titled The Swiss Family Robinson (and later a movie) the Robinson family were stranded on an uninhabited island and they had to build everything from scratch. Heath was a make-shift kind of guy, exactly the type of man who would use pennies to patch a leaking fuel tank. Great movie for kids, by the way.
EDIT: Oh my! Did I get this wrong!!! Big time. The saying, a Heath Robson job has nothing to do with the Swiss Family Robinson, but with an English satirist so named and now means a convoluted contraption. (My wife says I should rely more on Google and less on my imperfect recollection of events long past.)
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Loren
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They used pennies because it made cents at the time  |
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e&m_ghia
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For those of us who grew up in the 60's, this recalls a certain episode... Literally.
There was a cartoon called "Tom Slick", about a race driver. In one episode, the bad guy punches a hole in his gas tank - a mechanic tells Tom "You've got a hole in your gas tank, the size of a 50 cent piece - do you have a 50 cent piece to patch it?".
Tom replies "No, but I have two quarters, they will have to do".
Stange how these things stick with you after all these decades...
I would think the PO would have used quarters to make the joke complete. Maybe too cheap? |
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jpjohns
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Jackleg fuel tank repair |
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Heath Robinson. There's a lot of Heath Robinson improvisation in our Ghias. My PO chopped off the top of the seatbacks - unique on the '68 - to turn them into lowbacks. The effort and cost to fix that put a huge dent in my time and money budgets. And caused the seller to describe the car as a '67.
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Wow, I thought replacing the '68 seats with '69's were bad...LOL 
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Jackleg fuel tank repair |
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| kiwighia68 wrote: |
Heath Robinson. There's a lot of Heath Robinson improvisation in our Ghias. My PO chopped off the top of the seatbacks - unique on the '68 - to turn them into lowbacks. The effort and cost to fix that put a huge dent in my time and money budgets. And caused the seller to describe the car as a '67.
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Wow, I thought replacing the '68 seats with '69's were bad...LOL :cry: |
A philistine in Ghia terms is someone who is not a member of the Samba. (Did you really replace them? I read a comment somewhere that the '68 high-back seats were so bad they were a one-year only style. Unfortunately, I read this only after I had replaced them.)
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jpjohns
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I didn't replace them, the PO did and told me the car was a '69. First thing I looked at was the chassis number and saw it was 148. I didn't tell him that 
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TheFop
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I've posted this before but your pennies win, mine kind of made sense in a weird kind of way.
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mountainkowboy
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Because pennies were easier to find than brass screws....... 
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mlhsquared
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More "cents" than "sense", I'd say.
My '67's gas tank had a big fiberglass patch in that exact spot. I walked into the garage one day, smelled gas, and after a lengthy inspection, noticed that the gas line "fixture" on the tank bottom was wet with gasoline. I took my tank to a radiator shop and had them "boil" it out, and weld the holes for me. Got a clean, repaired tank for about $40.00.
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Unless one is doing a 100 point restoration... I feel its my duty to warn all 68'ers to abandon those things asap. 