Anyone got a pic of the iab black box. I have an a6 manifold im installing and i noticed a crack on the iab black box right below where the plug plugs in and above the 2 vacume lines. My question is will this cause a problem with it working right ? If i had a pic id show you all where it is. Do you think i could patch it with some silicone or something.. Thanks.
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I'm sure you can patch it with whatever (silicone, hot glue, plastic epoxy, weatherstrip sealant, etc.), it just needs to hold vacuum.
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Yeah its a small crack im trying to think of something that will hold up to the weather i dont want to patch it just to have it fall off or something a week later. I though about using contact cement and bicycle tire patch rubber cut to fit lol. Dunno if that would work or not haha.Comment
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If I could pick my ideal fix, It would be the "plastic epoxy".
I'm not completely sure that's what it's called.
It's a cylinder of (2-part) putty that you slice from and mix by hand.
I have seen it fix a huge crack in the plastic part of a stock radiator, the stuff is great. I think it even hardens underwater!
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epoxy is the shit!
jbweld is basically epoxy, so either get regular 2-part epoxy from like walmart or pick up JB quik-weld while youre at autozone. its just a vacuum box, so as long as you use something that dries hard (not rubbery, so it doesnt get sucked into the box when its under vacuum) itll be fine.. hotglue, elmers, superglue, contact cement, model glue, whatever.
just clean off hte plastic and sand it a bit for optimum stickage.
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The iab's I got were cracked too, probably in the same place as yours. I would say the best thing would be plastic epoxy. What I did was used a lighter to melt some surrounding plastic and sort of patch the crack.
But the epoxy would be much more professional and reliable.
Unfortunatly it looks like I don't have a pic available though.
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