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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 03:20 PM
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Oil temperature.... Duhhhh. Thanks guys I must have inhaled too many fumes. I didn't realize that VHT brand had 'normal' paint. I thought it was "Very High Temperature" for a reason. At least all the stuff on the shelves here is like that.
Yeah. That's the Canadian stuff, ya know. Hoser brand.
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by salad
Oil temperature.... Duhhhh. Thanks guys I must have inhaled too many fumes.
Rumor down here is that paint in Canada smells like bacon so... totally understandable. You guys get all the good stuff :/
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 03:56 PM
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Well that makes sense. Poutine is basically an edible adhesion promoter.

Lol "Hoser brand"
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 03:59 PM
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Well that makes sense. Poutine is basically an edible adhesion promoter.

Lol "Hoser brand"
I loved that movie "Strange Brew".
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 04:15 PM
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I loved that movie "Strange Brew".
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by cruiser54
I'll take pretty pictures for $100, salad.
oh my.
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 11:32 PM
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I used the oven trick to clean the gunk out of the whatever you call them things in the top of the VC. But I did use the farm equip paint on mine.

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And I hired a tech from the dealership to finish it up. A little young but cheap.
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 11:39 PM
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Excellent, thanks. I've only got one oven so I'll be avoiding that. I'm thinking tomorrow when it's warm (above freezing... go figure) I'll take the valve cover to the coin wash and blast it out with the rip-your-arm-off pressure there.

First thought seeing that pic was "let's see your K&N cone filter do this"
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 11:48 PM
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Excellent, thanks. I've only got one oven so I'll be avoiding that. I'm thinking tomorrow when it's warm (above freezing... go figure) I'll take the valve cover to the coin wash and blast it out with the rip-your-arm-off pressure there.

First thought seeing that pic was "let's see your K&N cone filter do this"
Yeah. I don't think she can stand on it now. I did the specter thing. The farm paint held up well. It was done back in 09. This was this summer.
Mine was tweaked too, so I lightly bolted it to a spare head I had and left it overnight. It straightened out pretty good. No leaks so far.

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Yeah. I don't think she can stand on it now. I did the specter thing. The farm paint held up well. It was done back in 09. This was this summer.
Mine was tweaked too, so I lightly bolted it to a spare head I had and left it overnight. It straightened out pretty good. No leaks so far.
That's not a bad idea actually, I've got some wood scrap around here that I should be able to bolt that sucker to.
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Originally Posted by CCKen
Place your VC in your wife's oven and turn the "Clean" feature on. It should cook all the goodies out in a couple of hours.

You're going to end up buying your wife a new oven.
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You're going to end up buying your wife a new oven.
I bought a used one for 50 to do powder coating and cleaning. Works good. The wife even uses the top in the summer during cookouts for corn and stuff.
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