C60X running not as well as it should....

[warren brown]

Wow Tony!!!!! Thanks so much for all this!!! Sorry I've been up in Lithgow for a few days and just got back!! Richard Farrant has suggested I clean the tank out - which I'll do - but your experience absolutely mirrors mine!! Blasted wasps... I'm onto it! Learning a lot here - thanks everyone - I'll keep you posted!

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by warren brown

your experience absolutely mirrors mine!! Blasted wasps... I'm onto it!

Yes it's not something I would ever have imagined occurring, but on reflection it's a genuine occupational hazard for us. Most if not all our MVs have at some stage in their history lain idle for long periods, often for decades, and unless the fuel cap is fitted and seals perfectly, the tank will eventually dry out. These critters are ubiquitous and they can probably crawl past the dried out shrunken fuel cap gasket, which is often found cracked or even disintegrated. Once inside the tank they construct a time bomb for us! Without a fuel filter it could potentially wreck the motor, particularly if it lacks an oil filter, as did early production CMPs, and we'd be none the wiser. I wonder how many blitz motors have clapped out prematurely in this way - invariably the original fuel filter has long since been decommissioned by the time we acquire them. Certainly in light of our own experience it's something we need to be onto from the outset as you say Warren.

[Barry Churcher]

They're a bit Keith Richard - old and coked up.

Nice one Warren. That gave me the morning smile I needed.
Barry

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Guys

Another place mud wasps up our way like to build nests is in the vent pipe from radiator or the coolant recovery tanks. All three off my trucks have had this problem, my HUP's coolant recovery vent tube was so well that it sealed the system to the point that the top radiator hose blew off.

They also like the coolant drain valves which is annoying but not dramatic.

Cheers Phil

[rob love]

Let's not forget their nests in the tubes leading into the vacuum wiper motors. We used to remove them all the time from the jeep wipers.

[warren brown]

Well - drained the fuel tank and to my surprise, very little rubbish came out. About 60 litres of new petrol came out - I only filled it up the week before and in the first tranch of fuel removal only a miniscule bit of ...rust? Black grit? I was expecting shards of rust and detritus - but the fuel flowed freely and came out clean. There wasn't enough rubbish to photograph - but I'm not happy until I've really checked out whether there could be a wasps nest up inside. Certainly we get wasps nests around here - I have a brand new Davey Firefighter pump sitting in the shed - the dealer covered up the outlets/inlets with paper coffee cups and taped them up to stop wasps nests. I'm waiting now for the arrival of the new plugs, points, leads, dizzy cap, oil filter, rocker cover gasket (just in case) etc. See how we go...

[warren brown]

Ready to check the inside of the tank - at last, I finally get to use this...