I was working on a Wayne 60 the other day, getting the lights to work when I plug it in. Not to hard, found out I lost the key and now need a new door lock. Fixed some wiring and got it to work. Today I wanted to get my 36B all lit up also. Thought I just needed to replace a couple lite bulbs and plug it in....
Before I started
First off I pulled off one door and couldn't find an extention cord plug. All that was there was a couple nasty wires sticking out the end of the one pipe conduit. They were pretty bad looking so I went to unscrew that pipe from the internal lights shut off switch box. When I got that off I noticed that instead of the wires hanging down, they were broken off at the base of the shut off switch box. Plus looking into the pipe, there was some kind of hard black stuff. So I go and try to access the threaded plug on the lights manifold. This is of course behind the one side panel. I attempt to remove the reset crank handle so I can get the side panel off but it will not come off, even with the set screw completely out. So as the shaft is sort of long anyways, I get out my drill and try to drill off the head of the shaft, thinking it was mushroomed out some. After breaking off the first bit, I finally get part of the shaft drilled off so the handle will pop off. Next I pull off the side panel and get access to the big threaded plug where the wires are all spliced in at the wiring manifold. (Have to get a pipe wrench at this point to get it off) Anyways, I unscrew the plug and instead of seeing the wires, the area is filled with some kind of hard black stuff. Picture below
So now I decide that the wiring manifold has to come out to get the black stuff out and the wires replaced. Of course, there is a fuel pipe in the way that has to come out first. Tried to wrench it out but no luck, pipe wrench is to small. So I disconect the thing from the site glass manifold and go to remove it, of course it will not fit up through the gap between the frame and the computer mount bracket, so I will have to pull the bracket out so I can get the pipe out to put it in a vise and wrench it off. Anyways, there are two bolts on top of the pump, under the add glass top that hold the wiring manifold in. Get one out, other one is stripped. So I pop off the top and am able to vise grip it out. Now the wiring manifold won't come out because other stuff is in the way. So I get the pipe wrench again and start cranking on the one pipe arm thing to get it off. It turns, the lite socket comes in contact with something hard and gets shattered. I do have one spare lite socket so no big deal. Get the one arm off, get the manifold out and now I have to get the black stuff out. I start chipping away, bugger up a screw driver tip, try the drill, bust another lite socket. Long story short, my 10 minute lite bulb job lasted a good part of the afternoon, I am in worse shape than when I started and the pump now looks like this.
Anybody know an easy way to bet out that black stuff? Will it burn? Is it hazardous?
