The risk is the vaporisation of the fuel, due to the heat from the
manifolds, the distributor will do the rest if the engine is running. I have
experienced this nightmare some years back. As a result, originality does
not come into my mind with 40 year plus rubber !
Regards
Dave
60 Le Baron sedan.
England.
----- Original Message -----
From: "eastern sierra Adj Services" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:16 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] Fuelin' the fire?
> Yeah, Sherwood--it's not "fun" to play with fire, or catastrophic
> failure of a fuel line (same thing?)
>
> btw, if/when that rubber fuel line were to fail, there wouldn't be any
> 'forced' fuel-flow, out of that line, would-there? --assuming no
> installation of an electric fuel-pump, between the gas tank & the fuel
> pump.
>
> Neil
|
|
Back to the Home of the Forward Look Network