This stuff is great. STEEL IN A TUBE MAN!! I once had a hole in my exhaust and now that hole is the strongest part of the assembely. GM decided to use plastic on the electric hatch huh? Well that broke. JB weld fixed it right up. My Dad tells me he used JB weld on a cracked engine block!


>anybody use this stuff? Well on what?

 

I used it on my transmission bell housing after UPS cracked it through abuse and and refused to pay for it despite having insurance for it. Hooray UPS!!!

But Im not bitter!

SB

 

I really hate UPS. The absolute slowest way to ship something, and they tend to damage more stuff than the other mail services combined.

I've been using JB Weld for years on stuff. Most notabel use I can think of is fixing the hole in my power steering fluid resevoir.

 

Where do you get this stuff??

 

Your finer autoparts, grocery and general crap (read: walmart) stores.

SB

 

Hey folks, I found something cooler the JB Weld. It might not be steel in a tube, but it's coooooollll no less.

That's right safety tape !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ron

 

The guy who sold me my car used it on both sides of the cracked block. He failed to inform me of that. A couple days later it cracked too and all the water and antifreeze went everywhere. JB Weld will work, for a little while.

 

Depends what you use it on. Just use some common sense. If it's a high stress area or if it sees a lot of expansion and contraction due to heat, it won't hold very long. It is great stuff, and I have found plenty of uses for it.

 

It all depends. I have a friend that used it on his straight six in his nova all though his junior year. Never failed.

SB

 

Another good place that the JB Weld stuff works well is on a AFPR. I have the accell (ripoff) version that I paid $80 a few years back. About a week after install, while adjusting the timing, I broke off the little nipple where the vacuum hose goes off, what a POS. I found out that JB weld was the easist and most cost effective way to remedy this problem and the regulator's been fine since. JFYI

 

I guess it could have been the size of the fix too. My cracks were all along both sides of the block on the back water jackets. That stuff would hold until it got hot and then bust. I even tryed to re-jb weld it so I could drive it some. It never lasted more than 20 minutes. I just replaced the block. Now it doesn't leak anything, and I know isn't going to all of a sudden crack. I agree there are plenty of great uses for the stuff, but I will never use them of engines again.

 

I just used it on a little hole for my "cat-delete" pipe, last night

 

Worked didnt it?

 

You can fix anything with some duct tape, JB, and bondo

 

Hi guys,

JB Weld is just an epoxy. So keep that in mind.

An even better mending adhesive is Quick Steel (also an epoxy). It is better in that it is hand formable (it has a clay consistancy). You can create shapes with it. It is fantastic for cosmetic repairs, etc.