JB Weld Waterweld - good for emergency

[RGRides4fun]

Hi, I had an adventure !

I ran over something that made a hole in my oil pan, in the front right corner.

All the oil ran out on the street. (that kind of sucked).

I bought some jbweld waterweld 20 minute quick set (good to 300 degrees) and some oil and armor all cleaning wipes (NOT protective wipes) at an autozone that was right down the street. The waterweld is a little tube 4 inch long and 1 in diameter.

I cleaned the outside of the oil pan, mixed up the waterweld, and plugged the hole, waited 20 minutes, poured in the oil, and rode home slooooowly.

I used the whole tube, i figure more is better !

The stuff is like thick putty, and i used my bare fingers to mix and place it, it wasn't messy.

more info at http://jbweld.net/products/water.php

Its hard as rock and not leaking now, (a day later)

Who knows , this may last a long time,,, but I plan to not ride until i replace the oil pan.

I also posted something similiar to this under buy/sell/wanted, where i am asking for an oil pan.


My St is a 94.


Richard

 

[juddspaintballs]

A mechanic I worked for had an engine with a crack in the head. He JB welded it and it was still holding up over 70k miles later. JB weld makes some good products! That one sounds pretty neat though.

 

[dmulk]

I carry some on in my DS kit along with the regular JB weld also. Great stuff!!!

I used it on a paintball gun once (back in the days when you had to epoxy the feed tube on the gun barrels..... it held forever!!)

<D>

 

[Blue One]

Some of that stuff is amazing. I have a friend who had a Jaguar automatic transmission. The shop doing the rebuild on the trans discovered that one of the holes holding some sort of threaded valve was stripped out and the seat for the valve was messed up.

We could not weld the aluminum alloy down in the hole and the alternative was a new transmission case at great expense.

We cleaned it by bead blasting the surface of the hole (it was quite deep also) and then filled it up with Aluminum weld epoxy.

The shop then drilled it out, threaded it and machined a sealing seat for the valve into the epoxy.

It is still working just as it should now 6 years later.