Dirty Brown Header Tank

[Fredalier]

I had a dirty brown header tank in my Freda.

Then I kept on reading here that lots of other bongoliers had the same issue.

Then I heard the same from the video that's on You-tube.

So I offer this simple solution.

1. Find some nice brand new brite and shiny little 10mm nuts (that's nuts as in nuts and bolts). Count off about 20 of them. Make a note of how many exactly.

2. If you have two batteries, remove the passenger side one. Don't yet remove your two hoses from your header tank, but first undo the tank itself from its home.

3. Raise the tank to higher than its home, to avoid letting air in. Using locking pliers (or preferably clamps if you have them), close off the two pipes to prevent air getting in, Now remove the hoses from the tank.

4. Now you can use a combination of water, a squirt of detergent and the previously counted nuts, to put inside the tank, the detergent doing the cleaning, the nuts providing the mild abbrasion. You are using nice shiny nuts cos they will not scratch the plastic inside. Shake, shake shake, preverably to the background sounds of the older song of the same name which then goes "shake your boody".

Shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake
Shake your boody
Shake your boody
Your the, best in the world, I can tell
daa daa dat da da da
etc

5. By the end of the first chorus your water will be very reddish brown. Repeat 4 at least once till water is becoming clean.

6. Remove and account for all your nuts (don't want any accdidentally left in the tank), before replacing the hoses first, and then replacing the tank.

7. If you've been scrupulous in keeping air out of the hoses, you shouldn't need to do a bleed, but some may prefer to. Up to you, and no recommendation from me on this. Bleeding the coolant system is covered extensively elsewhere on BongoFury!

and there you 'ave it. A nice bright see-through header tank that you don't need to use dipsticks any more to keep level between the markers.

[Fredalier]

Forgot to mention the obvious. Put cap on and block the two holes before shake, shake, shaking.

[Fredalier]

Was it KC and the Sunshine Band? Mike?

[lev8]

Great post, one suggestion, if you add dilute sulfamic or phosphoric acid to the tank it will come cleaner and quicker. Warning - Do not mix different acids together - but you can use them alternately with a flush in between. Please follow ALL safety directions and dispose of spent acid by neutralising with old concrete/mortar etc. Both products and safety directions available from tile shops.

[mikexgough]

Was it KC and the Sunshine Band? Mike?

Sure was..... KC & the sunshine band and I knew there must be a use for those 3/8 unf nuts I have in the back of the garage.... now I have found one......

could sell them on ebay as "Mazda Bongo Expansion Tank Cleaner" got to be worth £5.99...for a bag of old nuts

That technique sounds similar to what builder do to clean cement mixers.....with broken bricks.... nice one

[haydn callow]

Won't work on a stained tank.......the brown actually stains the plastic and no amount of "anything" will get rid of that.......However if it's just gunge within the tank it will work as will most of the other methods often repeted on here.

[STANIMA]

Dirty brown header tank out flank the skank that obscures the view leaving you without a clue to the hue of the coolant
a clear side like a virtuous bride check the contents quicker than a Ted Nugent solo,
Oh no! I gotta get some nuts & shake like a snake without a break for the mandatory three point five,
keeping bleach outa my eye like some twisted Tom Cruise cocktail waiter, or dat dancing purple alligator from the kiddie show before my ho’s blow if I don’t clip em right keeping the ends tight,
Tonight’s the night I’m gonna get my header bright white to match my pimp suit like I’s splashing the Brut!

Respect.


Stan.

[Fredalier]

I just can't seem to get those words to fit the KC and the sunshine band beat.

[mikexgough]

great to hear of another way to clean a tank and as KC would sing........ "That's the way I like it".... the more ways of doing a job the better, some ways work for different folks....... as they say more than one way to skin a cat......

[mister munkey]

as they say more than one way to skin a cat......

I've found 50 ways to start with

1. knife.

2. shard of glass.

3. small explosives.

4. teeth.

5. the power of prayer.

6. can opener.

7. unzip from neck to navel.

8. set a series of short-term easily attainable goals, resulting in skinned cat. accomplish goals.

9. peer pressure, "all the cool cats are getting skinned"

10. whittle it off.

11. give cat post-hypnotic suggestion to get skinned every time it hears the phrase "is it hot in here?" later, say phrase.

12. rent instructional cat skinning video, study carefully, and apply what you learn.

13. tell cat pleasant tale about a young boy who loves fruit. while cat is distracted by story, quietly, gently remove skin.

14. use your super samurai slice action!

15. try the classic 'toothpaste tube' method.

16. centrifugal force.

17. suddenly and severely frighten cat. try sneaking up and clapping cymbals.

18. marry cat. divorce cat. take cat to court for half of skin. (repeat for full skin)

19. allow cat to evolve beyond need for skin.

20. huff and puff and blow his skin off.

21. offer your own skin in trade. welch on deal.

22. vote yes on proposition 98. (the cat skinning law)

23. procrastinate. wait until it's almost to late. promise to skin cat tomorrow. forget. (this method works for me)

24. find a way to make cat so angry that it's skin falls off. (this method requires much persistence)

25. if in a horror movie, dream about cat getting skinned. wake up to discover cat was really skinned!!

26. try some sort of skinning machine.

27. change definition of skin to mean "read" and change cat to mean "this sentence"

28. press cat's eject button.

29. travel forward in time to sometime after you've already skinned cat. get skin and return to present time. triumph!

30. remove tab a(skin attachment) from tab b. (get it? tab b... tabby. never mind, this is way over your head)

31. next time you're cleaning 'accidently' use your powerful new suck-o-lux vacuum to remove cat's internal organs.

32. ask nicely to 'borrow' skin for just a moment.

33. dare cat to get skinned. if that fails, double dare it. finally, as last resort, triple dog dare it.

34. approach cat with scissors, assuring it you will only be doing some minor alterations to it's skin.

35. run in the opposite direction at the speed of light. (nobody knows why, but it works)

36. wait until opposite day and then don't skin cat.

37. write screenplay containing scene where cat gets skinned. get screenplay produced. perform skinning scene.

38. next time cat removes skin to clean bones, swipe!

39. invite cat to play strip poker. cheat.

40. destroy entire universe except for cat's skin.

41. simply click your heels together three times and say "there's no cat like a skinned cat"

42. tie one end of string to doorknob, other end to cat's skin. slam door.

43. wait until cat gets stuck in tree. call fire department to rescue it. tell them "only rescue the skin part"

44. lie and say you already skinned cat. grow to believe lie.

45. perhaps a clever skin inspector costume might pull the trick.

46. accuse cat of murder. collect skin as evidence.

47. using a magnetic hypersonic resonance decapacitor, deplete invisible bond holding together cat's skin molecules.

48. flood the cat out of it's skin, in the same way you'd flood a gopher out of a hole.

49. set phasers to 'skin' and fire when ready!

50. let someone else do it.

[Muzorewa]

No. 15

[STANIMA]

I just can't seem to get those words to fit the KC and the sunshine band beat.

Now, you wanna rewrite to order?
In a straight holding pattern like closing the border
Keeping it sweet, not discreet,
Feeling the force like a parrot in the back seat
Corner the beat, let the samples bleat,
let the bookah bookah go while we summon the heat
Movin from freeflow, slashing the tempo
Sounding like Will Smith on another film promo
Give a rhyme that matches, with classic display & the DJ scratches the punch tooda end of the, phrase
I say
shake shake shake,
shake shake shake,
Shake your booty
Huh, Huh,
Shake your booty

I know, you can do it, very well
Don’t fight, the feeling, give yourself a dance
Wave dat bleach tank in the air like you just don’t care
I can seeeeee how Marshall Mathers might have blond his hair
I can sell out bro, while I’m givin your tip ago I can walk the dog while I dippin a yo yo
want you to know that I’s getting it down pat, I even know another way just to skin a cat, OH EM GEE! Just had another,
Plus a fifty first way to leave your lover?
OH Yeah,
shake shake shake,
shake shake shake,
Shake your booty
Shake your booty

Stan.

[dunslair]

No. 15

No15 was the only one that shocked you

[missfixit70]

No. 15

No15 was the only one that shocked you

Come on, you've seen what he cooks

[helen&tony]

Hi
Catatouille ???
Cheers
Helen