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Originally Posted by olderguy
Remember, it's sucking there, so a patch that won't fall out should hold. Try cleaning the pipe good and run the JB Weld all around so that it won't fall out from vibration. Like a clamp.
Edit: when i said blow out, i meant a complete failure insteadl of a small puncture.
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Originally Posted by olderguy
What I meant is run a bead around the diameter of the pipe. That way is the adhesion fails, it will still stay in place.
But i realized i didn't drill through the pickup, i tapped through it :( I knew i was careful with the drill, the tap not so much.
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Hey, Loki. I'm getting ready to drill that same hole, and now I'm paranoid. Since you've got the system open right now, could you poke a stick through that hole and tell me exactly how much clearance there is from the outer surface of the pan to the pickup tube?
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My advice is to get a bit-stop. It's a collar with set screw- clamp on the bit 1/4" from the tip and you'll be safe. You drill through and then stop at the collar. I'm sure the issue is from pushing on the drill to get through, then when the break through happens, the motor is still spinning and just taps the tube which is VERY thin. The collar will stop this.
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Plus if you let the drill bit bit do the work then it shouldn't get pushed in. It will drill easily and it will go at its own pace. I tapped with a socket and it only barely needed to thread the thin wall of the pan. Plus you're going to want to JB Weld to hell out of it so it doesnt need to be too perfect of a tap job.