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Tell the insurance adjuster this:

The reason electrical wiring is damanged beyound repair when it has been submerged is that the moisture seeps into the strands of the wiring inside the insulation. You cannot get it out. With the passage of time, it starts up the electrolysis process and corrodes everything. Electricity flowing through the wires accelerates the process.

The wiring must be replaced if the tractor was under water, even if it was fresh clean water. This includes all electrical guages, switches, ect., unless they can be completely disassembled and dried. If the tractor sits on the lot for any lenght of time while they try to make up their mind, the damage will already be done, and everything electrical will have to be replaced.

FWIW,
Dave

Up S T Creek Need paddle
Parts and Repair
Replies 20 Post by karmakanic

Hi Mark,

Concerning your alignment problem. I assume you're referring to the valve no longer being straight up and down, but it's tilted clockwise because you tightened the intake pipe beyond it's original position. I'm also assuming you're working with taper pipe threads.

(probably gonna be in trouble with all these assumptions, but here goes, my 1.5 cents worth.)

If that's the case the only true fix is to continue tightening a full turn to get your valve turned the way you want it. Taper pipe threads are designed with enough clearence between male and female to allow you to do this.
May take a cheater pipe on the old pipe wrench, but it should be do'able.

You can't back up, and you shouldn't use teflon tape or any other sealer to allow you to position the valve.

Taper pipe fittings seal by deforming the male and female threads to match each other as you tighten up. Once they've deformed, you have to always go forward to maintain the seal. This also means you have to tighten the heck out of them, especially in the larger sizes.

HTH,
Dave

Diesel fuel pipe joints
Parts and Repair
Replies 16 Post by karmakanic

I suspect the main reason the pond failed was from the leaking drawdown pipe. The weight and water of the spoils may of brought on the final failure, but it was going to fail anyway. <br>
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If the soil was clay you don't have a separate liner. Clay makes a fine pond dam, pretty much inpervious as long as the water doesn't have a path it can follow. A pipe is such a path, and a leaking pipe in a clay dam will bring on quick failure. The continual water ingress wil turn the clay to mush, and it will flow like molassas.<br>
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We have heavy clay soils here, and that makes it easy to build ponds. Pretty much dig a hole anywhere and wait for it to fill up. But when it rains, brother you better have your hip boots on if you're out in that clay. You'll be up to your hips before you know it.<br>
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Dave

Cattail removal
Tractor Projects
Replies 21 Post by karmakanic

[blue]I think Brown eventually bought Aston-Martin but I don't know how Lamborghini got into cars.[/blue]

The story is that Lamborghini got into the car business after he was treated badly by someone at Ferrari.

Dave

Lamborghini
Other Tractor Brands
Replies 17 Post by karmakanic