JB Weld, what crazything have you done with it?

Broken case on a sportster caused by snapped chain. A couple of Muncie tranny cracks, various radiator leaks. A stud hole that snapped off a flatty intake when it was dropped, gas tank rock hole in an 86 Cavalier. Lots of stuff. I wouldn't use it on something like a broken engine mount, but if it's not something under a heavy load, the shit works great.

 

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Filled a leak I sprung in my 54 Buick's radiator MINUTES before the buyer came to get it. Mashed it up, wedged it in the hole the size of a dime (it was on the top), sprayed it gloss black as the buyer pulled up to drive it home. It didnt even set for 30 minutes,more like 3 minutes when he fired it up, I thought I was going to piss my pants. No leaks, nothing. I saw him a year later and asked how the radiator was doing. He said "great ,but why? " I told him, just curious.....

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Note to self: bring magnafing Glass when buying from Kustom55

 

A water neck on my '50 Shoebox and my girlfriends plate that I knocked off the kitchen cabinet while on a whiskey binge....shuuush...she still doesn't know.

 

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Filled a leak I sprung in my 54 Buick's radiator MINUTES before the buyer came to get it. Mashed it up, wedged it in the hole the size of a dime (it was on the top), sprayed it gloss black as the buyer pulled up to drive it home. It didnt even set for 30 minutes,more like 3 minutes when he fired it up, I thought I was going to piss my pants. No leaks, nothing. I saw him a year later and asked how the radiator was doing. He said "great ,but why? " I told him, just curious.....

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Note to self: bring magnafing Glass when buying from Kustom55


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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! I swear there's no bondo....promise!

 

well being superglue is so popular...don't buy it in those little tiny tubes, go to your local model car store and get in in like one ounce tubes.

 

I took my new girlfriend on a surf trip to Mainland Mexico. Blew a hole in the water pump on my Toyota Crown wagon in Mazatlan. Patched it up with JB, continued the trip and got home with no problems. She eventually married me -- which probably wouldn't have happened if we'd gotten stuck down there. We celebrated our 26th anniversary last Monday.

 

Well I used it on a 67(oops to new) Jaguar engine that had a 6 inch crack in the block. And I filled hole in a 390 block that was rusted thru. both fixes are still intact.

We also use it to fill pits in the timing covers where they corrode. fords, buicks...you know the ones. Satin

 

I used it at the HAMB Drags to put the ear back on Fraz's Generator.

Still on there to this day. We wiped most the grease off, slathered it on there and stuck it back together.

Made a few runs with it on there and drove all the way home and still fine.

I used it on a fuel tank leak on the Pete from work. Loosened the straps. Rolled the tank about 90 degrees and sprayed it with brake cleaner. Put the JB on there and let it dry overnight. Still on there and no leaks.

I like the stuff.

 

Patched the plastic intake manifold on my daily-driver 96 Mustang; the coolant crossover was split along its entire length. A year before I used it to practically cast a new thermostat housing in the same manifold that had multiple cracks. It held cooling system pressure long enough to get the new updated manifold with the aluminum crossover. I should have just cast a new manifold out of the stuff.

 

This one was'nt me personally, but I witnessed it. Buddie had a 50 merc with a flattie that was a boiler and a half (he used to stick masking tape over the temp gauge and just drive), anyways it starts blowing steam and we pulled the engine. Well there was a crack from one of the head botls that spanned the water jacket into the cylinder, that crazy fucker just slathered the crack with JB, sanded it smooth-in the cylinder and when it came time to torque down the head, he filled the stud hole full of JB and torqued it down! All the while with me laughing my ass off in the background telling him it would NEVER work!! Fucking thing is still running and that was 3 years ago!

 

I've JB welded small metal patches on the backside of trim holes. Did it on my 39 buick. No problems the 5 years I had it. Super glue is great. I glued a tear in my hand that reaches from the middle of my palm to the second joint on my little finger. I do however have a scar. I wasn't very good with it then. Did better the next time.The first time I used super glue I had a buddy that I was rodeoing with that got jerked down on a bulls head. I superglued his head back together. He say's I'm the reason he has a sunvisor now. TP

 

The craziest thing I've done is grind it off of everything from boats to well pumps after somebody thought they could get some miracle fix in a tube and then realized they need to go get it welded for real.

Snake oil, people... snake oil.

Oh, and I have a $25 charge for removing epoxy prior to welding...

JOE

 

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Used it to put an ear back on a powerglide bellhousing.


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hahahahaha, when I read that first, I neglected to read the powerglide bellhousing part. Haha I was laughing my ass off, I thought it said "used it to put an ear back on"

lol

 

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! I swear there's no bondo....promise!

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And Magnet. End Note.........lol

 

"Used it to put an ear back on". WHAT! WHAT! Did you say somptin? WHAT! Can't hear YOU!!........OLDBEET

 

On a road trip about 3 years ago, 60 guys went on a bus trip to Cobo Hall to AutoRama. As the bus was leaving the back of the facility, The bus tire flipped the lid up on a manhole cover and punctured the oil pan on the bus. Just on the outskirts of Detroit, the bus driver had the warning light come on at the console, and we had to pull over. Upon inspection we found a hole in the pan the size of a dime. We happened to stop at a convience mart/ gas station and the busdriver told us of the dilemma. Rather than wait 4 hours for another bus to come get us, we looked around the convience mart and found..........JB WELD.
Having a whole bus of hot-rodders on board, we proceeded to wipe the pan down and gave it a try. It worked but only for a little while. It did get us to a truck stop but it was a 12 hour ride home...........

Spoons

 

Used to 'assist' many years back in the pits at the drags in the UK, helped repair a FIST sized hole in the side of a Keith Black Hemi from my friends funny car using a paint can cut up & JB welded to the side!!

Lasted 3 more rounds too!!

 

Crazy tales, my dad mentioned tonight he has had semis with 100K on a JB welded block!

 

Decided I didn't like my open plenum intake, so built up the runners using JB Weld. Lasted about 8 years before I changed the intake...when I ripped the stuff out, it came out too easily - I'm glad I took it out instead of it just coming out still on the engine...

 

No shit? You did that?
Yer Cvazzy...
I wanna party with you, sometime.


JOE

 

I was much younger - and even more dumb than I am now! I'm tougher now though!

 

OMG! I was at a family BBQ last weekend and this came up. My fiances grandmother had 8 children and she would JB Weld their teeth when they got a cavity instead of taking them to the dentist. One of the youngest girls is an adult now and when she went to the dentist she was told that there is mercury in JB Weld and that if she or her siblings were exposed to too much then it could posion them. Seriously!

Oh... BTW I went to school in Sulphur Springs, Texas... the same town JB Weld was invented. Just thought I would share that little odd fact! =)

 

"Fixed" an eroded intake manifold on my 2.8 liter blazer. it held up till I got rid of it.

 

WTF? You might be a redneck if...

I actually used it to fit a loose race to a sloppy, worn wheel hub on my '64 Econoline when my wife and I were on our honeymoon in Nashville, TN. Couldn't find one in a junkyard, so I washed it up good in the hotel bathroom sink, slathered it with the grey goo, let it sit overnight and drove it home! As you can probably guess, she was thrilled that we spent our saturday evening underneath the van in the hotel parking lot...

 

Fixed the broken air intake at the head on my air compressor. Two years so far.

 

Ive used it to reshape the inside radius of intake ports for years running methanol too
the quick cure shit is not nearly as good though

 

its a long story..
but to get right to the point..
busted open fuel tank out in the back 40 up in algonquin(sp) canada..no rail road crossing on the dirt road (path) i was on..bounced down off the last rail and it hit the bottom of the tank and pinched open a rip in the bottm of the fuel tank..(steel)
jacked up the vehicle till we got the fuel level away from the rip ..cleaned off the tank real good..mudded it up with JB weld and it held the rest of the trip..

I did however replace the tank once we got back home..just seemed like the safe thing to do...but that shit held great...

 

Way to bring a dead thread back to life!

 

Nope no Mercury


Calcium carbonate
Iron Powder
Epoxy Resin
Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Furfuryl Alcohol
Poly Resin
Aminophenols
Barium Sulfide
magnesium silicate
Titanium Dioxide
Zinc Sulfide


still not the type of shit to put in your mouth..especially your kids mouth..

Bet CPS would have loved to hear that one

Darwin award..winner

 

I had a pinhole in a oil pan, I applied JB weld and it is still leak free