Another fix with JB weld

I was on a family vacation in our Plymouth caravan one year on the way down there I hit a piece of wood that was in the lane on the interstate I didnt think much about it at the time but by the time we reached our destination (pigeon fordge Tennessee) the car started overheating. So I get us checked in to the hotel the wife and kid( I just had one at this point) where settling in I went out to inspect the car. The chunk of wood cracked the water pump. So i filled it up with water and went to the local parts store. I got a new water pump. Well in the process of taking the old one off i broke two of the bolts. The heads just snapped off even with the block. So here i am 300 miles from home not alot of money with my wife and a year old and a van with 2 broke water pump bolts in the block. So I did the only thing i could think of. I made a jb weld "gasket" and filled the the two broke holes up with jb weld. And tightened the remaining bolts up the keep everything straight while it cured. I let it set for around 24 hours. Filled it back up with antifreeze and went on to enjoy the rest of the vacation. I drove that van for another 4 years or so and it still ran like a champ when I traded it in. Id say it will last until that water pump goes bad. Lol

89on35s said:

Nice repair! Doesn't JB Weld get soft when heated up?

Cley

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Many many years ago I had a Plymouth Turismo with a 2.2 engine. I pulled the head to do some porting and put a Mopar Performance cam in it. The dog-gone exhaust tube going to the converter broke off and a new converter was 300 plus dollars. I filler the hole in the converter with JB Weld and man did it get rock hard. It was still in there five years later when I sold it and you know how hot converters get. I also use it to hold the tubes in heads when I port them.

Just thought of another one.
A few of us went on a campout dirt bike riding trip and got up in the morning to find one of the bikes metal gas tank had split along the seam on the bottom of the tank.
We layed the bike on it's side to keep any remaining fuel away from the seam, let it dry for a bit and used the 15 minute Loctite this time.
Got rid of the bike 4 years later and it still didn't leak.

My dad had a cheap no name plastic pedestal fan @ his shop. One day I knocked over by accident and broke the pedestal clean through! So it occured to me to use jb weld to re attach it. Since then fan fell over several more occasions and has held up with out a hitch!

25 or more years ago I wanted to put a bottom outlet on the gas tank of my 64 plymouth. Drilled a hole, screwed in a brass fitting just a thread or so and j-b it. Still there and nice and dry.