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rhodyguy |
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Chimp Sanctuary NW. Check it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 22,093 Joined: 2-March 03 From: Orion's Bell. The BELL! Member No.: 378 Region Association: Galt's Gulch ![]() |
i stop at a light about 4 miles from home. overwhelmed by the stench of fuel. shut it off and pull over immediately. top of driver's side tin is puddled with fuel and it's steaming off. turn key to energize the pump to see where it might be leaking. one of the lead plugs ( which block the interior passage ways) on the inside face of the carbs has popped out and the gas is coming out like a garden hose. KEY OFF!!! find the plug laying on the tin (no tools on board of course (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) ). use a keys and a rock to drive the plug back in and drive home stopping every 100 yards or so. i was sure i was going to watch my car go up in flames. damn.
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Just when you think you're done...wait, there is more..lol ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,219 Joined: 21-September 06 From: Seattle, WA... actually Everett Member No.: 6,884 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
Tim Kornacki had that happen to him about two weeks ago. Weird thing to hear about twice in a month. He went and JB welded it so the plugs will never come out again.
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rhodyguy |
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Chimp Sanctuary NW. Check it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 22,093 Joined: 2-March 03 From: Orion's Bell. The BELL! Member No.: 378 Region Association: Galt's Gulch ![]() |
luckily i was on a side road. if this had happened on the freeway, i'm sure the ending would have been much worse.
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Just when you think you're done...wait, there is more..lol ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,219 Joined: 21-September 06 From: Seattle, WA... actually Everett Member No.: 6,884 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
Most likely would have run out of gas before you caught on fire, but hard to say. Never want to see a 914 go up in flames. Glad you caught it when you did.
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ptravnic |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,231 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 747 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
I can't visualize where the leak was coming from. Any chance you can post a pic for me?
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Just when you think you're done...wait, there is more..lol ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,219 Joined: 21-September 06 From: Seattle, WA... actually Everett Member No.: 6,884 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
I don't have a pic, but if you think about the middle of the carb there is a few plugs that are there. They can come out like his did. They just look like little pits a little bigger than the size of an eraser on a pencil.
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sww914 |
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Advanced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,439 Joined: 4-June 06 Member No.: 6,146 Region Association: None ![]() |
I had a Weber screen cap (17mm plug under the fuel tee on the side) come out 4 years ago. The car was on fire before the carbs ran out of gas in the fuel bowls. It burned the hell out of my car, flames 30 feet high. I forgot to turn the key off because the car had quit running and the fuel pump kept going, pumping gallons of fuel into the fire.
I was mostly worried about exiting the car, not thinking about the key. That's why when I repainted the car I painted flames on it. |
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Advanced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,081 Joined: 29-March 07 From: New Jersey Member No.: 7,631 Region Association: North East States ![]() ![]() |
two words....FIRE-EXTINGUISHER....have one on board (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Just when you think you're done...wait, there is more..lol ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,219 Joined: 21-September 06 From: Seattle, WA... actually Everett Member No.: 6,884 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
I had a Weber screen cap (17mm plug under the fuel tee on the side) come out 4 years ago. The car was on fire before the carbs ran out of gas in the fuel bowls. It burned the hell out of my car, flames 30 feet high. I forgot to turn the key off because the car had quit running and the fuel pump kept going, pumping gallons of fuel into the fire. I was mostly worried about exiting the car, not thinking about the key. That's why when I repainted the car I painted flames on it. Holy crap man. That would be some scarey stuff. I hope that never happens to me. Even if you did have an extinguisher I am sure getting the hell out was you only thought. |
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914 Wizard ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 11,640 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Colorado Member No.: 47 Region Association: Rocky Mountains ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I once had the same problem happen to me in the middle of the night in kansas on a deserted road....
made it home by using cellophane shrink wrap balled up and pushed into the opening with an allen wrench. that was around 1989, and I learned right then that those lead plugs need to be removed. Pull the carb body and tap the passage. Then use an allen headed cap screw to seal it once and for all with loc-tite brant |
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Back when grey Levi's were the rage. ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 404 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Eugene, OR Member No.: 5,959 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() |
I almost fell out of my chair in shock when I heard......you didn't have any tools on-board?!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
Glad to hear everything is OK. Were you on your way to Mt. Vernon? Is that REALLY where Teener Tuesday is today? Sorry - too far for me. |
sww914 |
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I had 2 extinguishers, 1 brand new Halon system, it was incorrectly labeled as "pull to actuate" when it was really a push to actuate, I had the cable set up to pull, so I couldn't push, and I had a
10BC handheld that I threw out of the window before I got out. The little extinguisher put it out for about .001 seconds before the flames shot up again. Eventually (a really, really long time) a safety vehicle came over with a big 60# BC and put it out. |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 720 Joined: 8-February 05 From: San Juan Bautista, CA Member No.: 3,577 Region Association: Northern California ![]() |
What carbs? I assume Webers? Glad all worked out OK. We don't need any flaming smileys.
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 210 Joined: 16-October 03 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 1,251 ![]() |
so i am on a warm up lap for DE at road America, and i smell gas. I look ahead to see what POS car is puking fuel, and i see new 993's and 996's. Strange, but i keep going around the entire 4 mile track, decide to pull into the pits to see if it could possible be my POS putting down fuel. Pull into the paddick, have my buddy pop the engine cover, turn the key back on, he starts screaming shut it off!
Can't find the plug, but a trip to the local Farm n Fleet, one wooden dowl (or wick as my friends took to calling it) and some 2 part epoxy, some shaving of wood, a hammer, and i drover that piece of crap all 200 miles back to Chicago. |
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King of Road Trips ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,280 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Member No.: 56 Region Association: Northstar Region ![]() |
Smelling gas isn't bad...when you can hear it and smell it that's when you have problems......
The city decided the roller coaster we called a street needed to be touched up. So they started to do this... Attached image(s) ![]() |
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King of Road Trips ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,280 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Member No.: 56 Region Association: Northstar Region ![]() |
At 7:45 this morning they ripped out the gas line to the house across the street. It happened right in front of my house.....Guy pounding on my door.....note the brace on my sprained wrist pointing towards where the pipe is/was. High pitched screaming whine and the smell of rotten eggs...
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You haven't seen me if anybody asks... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,738 Joined: 14-June 03 From: USA Member No.: 819 Region Association: Upper MidWest ![]() |
And that was the last we ever heard from GWN7.......
When he pressed the return key to send his last message and....... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
sww914 |
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Advanced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,439 Joined: 4-June 06 Member No.: 6,146 Region Association: None ![]() |
Where do you think he'll reenter the atmosphere?
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,453 Joined: 22-August 05 From: Sacramento, CA Member No.: 4,634 ![]() |
Tim Kornacki had that happen to him about two weeks ago. Weird thing to hear about twice in a month. He went and JB welded it so the plugs will never come out again. did that same thing with my buddy's big block olds, right down to the JB weld. New carb blew out a plug, but now he knows for certain his plug wires are good. If you have never seen purple race gas boiling in a puddle on a very wide intake manifold I can tell you, you expect it to explode into flames |
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Git on a chair son, all the good stuff is goin over yer head! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,777 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Bremerton, WA Member No.: 74 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
Nice save, Kevin!! Hope your blood pressure is back down...
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