Oil change pump not working

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by RaymondR

When I was a boy lots of things had leather buckets in (air rifles, kerosene pumps,etc.) I seem to recall making new buckets by cutting the blank out of the tongue of a shoe, soaking it in water, fitting it onto the plunger and forcing it into the barrel of the device.

The standard replacement for the rubber disc in a yabie pump up here in Queensland is one cut from a rubber thong.

The foot kind...

[RaymondR]

Originally Posted by Wotname

The foot kind...

Interesting viewpoint.

It appears that if you could get enough wraps one may achieve a seal. There is not a lot of material in many of those things??