Got into Fresno on the 718 train at ~11pm (late as usual).  At home were a few packages waiting.  My POR 15, stale air cleaner triangle from Greg and Clara, and a 40hp air cleaner that was in shabby shape.  The POR stuff look good and they even tossed in free spray bottles for the Marine Clean and Metal prep.  I’ll see how well the POR15 thins and
sprays as my brother Tom left me a Snapon paint sprayer.

The triangle looks good and strong.  It’ll think I’ll give it a coat of black paint :)

The air cleaner was in bad shape.  There are rust and dents all over the surface and the worst part is that there is a rubber patch in the bottom of it with poorly applied solder on the bottom to try and contain it.  I know I got it for about $50 less than the NOS ones, but
this probably needs more than $50 worth or work.  Luckily I have one more welding class, so I’m bringing the part with the patch in for some small welds and grinding off of bad rust.

My Mom, Dad and I caught up and talked a bit.  I went out to the bus and tested the fit of the air cleaner and also looked around the cab a bit more.  After seeing a rat infested bus’ fresh air duct I kind of wanted to get in there to see what mine was like.  It looked pretty
easy to take off, so I undid the screws to find that several had plumbers tape on them.   I don’t think they came that way from the factory.  Once they were off I tried prying off the cover plate, but it was really stuck on by some old rubber.  I kind of gave up after the metal seemed to be flexing, since I didn’t want to bent it out of shape.  I ended up putting the screws back on and calling it a night.