CE3 leaking?

[drummerskey]

yeah, we love the car. We just haven't been able to do much with it since we bought it due to the weather. I have had it out 3 times since December and I am itching for the weather to get better.

What I did right is that I got the wife in on the car too, so it is ours but I can buy whatever I want for it because she wants it too.

 

[awsum140]

Mine was grey metallic, 3 speed, with a 250cuin inline six and black interior. For a six banger it really could light up the tires, all the way through first and about a third of the way into second. People swore it was a 327 and there were times when I wished it was. It sure wasn't much good in snow, but I didn't care at that age, it made it even more fun! That accident totaled it though and that was the end of my sporty car days, got an Imperial after that.

Good deal on getting the wife involved too especially if she's a car fan at heart. I'd love to get a TR3 or an XKE for a project car, but without a garage and a lot of spare money, it's not too practical. I think my wife would buy into the idea as well, she likes sports cars as much as I do.

 

[drummerskey]

At this age, she will be a project car for sure. She is a 350, 4 speed manual and a base model. She needs a suspension upgrade and power steering for the wife to be able to drive. She is a car fan but her first choice would have been a Mustang and my first would have been a 76 Vette so this is our compromise. Actually, what she wanted was a 67 Shelby GT (about $100K) and that wasn't happening anyway. The only other thing we agreed on was a 56 Porshe Spyder replica; which personally, I thought was awesome but the Camaro was less.

Best part is the way insurance is on classic cars now.....if it gets totaled or stolen, I am guaranteed $10K more than what I paid for it.

 

[awsum140]

My friend had a '67 in gold with a 350 and a four speed. That thing was insane. He did a "little" work on it, ported and polished, high end ignition, manifold, carbs, headers, exhaust, traction bars (after he snapped the springs coming off the line) and I don't know what all else. I saw him again in the mid '70s, he was still driving it and it still blew the doors off anything he came up against on the road. I don't remember what it turned in the 1/4 mile, but it was respectable, for a drag car with the same engine. They are classics, no doubt! I will say mine had 120K on it when it got totaled and if it hadn't been totaled would easily have gone well over 200K. They don't build them like that today.

 

[Tramd]

This is what I mentioned earlier.......if you just hold the CE3 horizontally and let the juice separate off one of the wick holes, it won't leak that way either. Upside down or horizontally, your leaking is coming from the wicks getting flooded. Same concept, horizontally will get you less awkward looks

@Awsum

A - I like Rick too but I just bought that 69 Camaro so I am being a proud poppa!
B&C - I know, I was just being a pain in the keister.

Unfortunately there doesnt seem to be a fix for that. Its just the way they are. Use them down to the atomizer housing and then refill or they will begin to leak.

 

[reg190]

So just an update...no leaking from the syringe insert hole any longer. On my next fill I tried the method of "flicking" the top like a fever thermometer so that the excess juice doesn't leak into the air hole in the center...yea it didn't work. I tried it after I tried sucking the air out like outlaw vaper suggests in his vids...nothing helped. I even had them stand up vertically with the mouthpiece end down for a bit to try and let whatever was in there drip back to the bottom.

It's not a terribly big deal...I basically twist a napkin into the air hole to get the excess out...just annoying as all hell. Any other potential fixes for this minor inconvenience?

 

[awsum140]

You got me! I flick them about ten times each, standing them on the mouthpiece end as I go through about 20. Then simply fill and never have any leaks at all. Walking away, scratching my head trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

 

[reg190]

Yea it's puzzling me too. I actually stood them up vertically for about five - ten minutes prior to flicking them. I'd say that I gave them a good five or so flicks before sucking the excess air out with a syringe and tried to fill them up - slowly mind you. I don't know why they're still overflowing into the air hole in the middle. It seems that most of you guys fill your clearos up en masse with like twenty or thirty at a time whereas I'm just going back and forth with two at the moment...Think it might need more time sitting before filling?

Like I said, it's not a major problem because I can just twist a napkin up in the air hole and it does a good job of sucking up the excess juice after ten minutes or so, but it's just an odd problem I'd like to work out if possible.

I'm also considering some other non-SI brand clearos or things similar...I was looking at the Cig Easy "clear and easy" brand that basically has a piece that pops off the top so you can just fill them up, though I've heard mixed opinions. Most people like them but some complain that the top part can come off too easily and get lost...Not looking to fix one problem with another one but I don't really know my options other than dripping into a blank carto and that's the last thing I'd like to do quite honestly.