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YOUR RESEARCHBroken Oil Fill Tube - Potential Fix
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Suggestion · Original poster
I'll report back in a few months to see if the repair holds up, but I thought I'd share in case it can help someone else in the meantime.
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Suggestion · Original poster
After the gymnastics exercise to change the coolant tank, I wasn't really excited to do another one to change the fill tube.
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Suggestion · Original poster
After the gymnastics exercise to change the coolant tank, I wasn't really excited to do another one to change the fill tube.
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I was recently doing a coolant tank replacement. Unfortunately, at the very start of the job, I broke the oil fill tube when disconnecting it from the air box (the flexible tubing tore where it meets the rigid part of the assembly). After the gymnastics exercise to change the coolant tank, I wasn't really excited to do another one to change the fill tube. I did some research and read about other repairs (duct tape, RTV sealant, etc.), and thought of a different method. I made the repair using some 3" diameter, adhesive lined, heat shrink tubing (McMaster Carr 7207K7, $15.62). The piece of tubing that I bought was 9" long, and I cut a 4" long piece off of it for the repair. The tubing is thick and joined the parts well. The adhesive makes an airtight seal. As it shrinks lengthwise, it left behind some of adhesive on the flexible tube, but it dried hard and I'm not worried about dust/dirt sticking to it. You can also see where the adhesive oozed out at the front of the tubing, which helped form a good seal. I looked inside the fill tube and didn't see any adhesive that might have made it past the joint between the two pieces.
I'll report back in a few months to see if the repair holds up, but I thought I'd share in case it can help someone else in the meantime.
Adrian
Looks like it should work fine if you don't mind the "ghetto" look!
At the very least it'll buy you enough time til you want to actually get in there and change out the filler tube. Good job!
I just replaced mine while doing the starter. All the tutorials make it seem way scarier than it actually is. 3.5 hours is all it took for me to remove alternator, starter, oil filler tube etc. I did get lucky with the alternator bolt. for me the hardest part was getting the throttle body back in.
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