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Old 06-09-2019, 09:30 PM   #8
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Re: You gotta do what ya gotta do.

Sounds like fantastic riding.

Here's a necessity is the mother of invention story. At the end of a Carlisle Trucks show I had gotten all packed up in the August heat... finally. I was so ready to hop in my Jimmy diesel and feel the hiway breeze. I hop in to start and it just cranked... air in the fuel system. Either the base for the fuel filter/water separator was cracked or an o-ring was bad. I was about the last vendor on the grounds. Hardly any tools and no parts, what to do? I knew if I pushed on the filter it was fine. I looked around and PERFECT! A 1/2 full gallon milk jug. It wedged it in there tight and put a stick through the jug handle to keep it from vibrating loose and slipping down. Bled the air out and i was good to go... for a couple weeks. Turns out that part was discontinued and it took a while to come up with parts and fittings to create my own fuel filter/bleeder. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do
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