Way too much time on our hands

The other day, we really needed to use the pressure washer. We have/had 3 of them; two electric ones that only work intermittently and a gas powered one that we hardly use (it’s not everyday you need a 6HP pressure washer). Long story short, both of the electric ones decided to quit on us at the same time, and we really needed to use one of them, so we broke out the gas powered one.

But it’s never that easy, is it? We soon found out that the years were not too kind to the weathered pressure washer—mainly the gas tank. It was bursting at the seams, and gas was leaking everywhere.

I can’t explain why we wasted a good part of the afternoon making a gas tank for a pressure washer. “We were slow that day” just doesn’t quite seem to cut it. I’m not sure you can see the details in this picture, but the corners were rolled to give it that it’s-not-just-an-aluminum-box look, and the filler cap up top is from a KA24E that graciously donated its valve cover to science and/or madness, whichever you want to look at it. Yes, this gas filler hole used to be an oil fill hole on a valve cover that we chopped up and welded onto our new creation.

We're branching out from an automotive performance shop to a general performance shop. I guess we could start doing motor swaps on riding lawnmowers…