Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wilfrid on August 11, 2005, 10:02:35 AM
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Renault Clio V6 (http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=33552&page=1)
A nice set of photos.
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Poor guy needs a drink
(http://membres.lycos.fr/apoal/burn%20baby%20/31%20juillet%20035%20web%20buznnet.jpg)
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Its nice to see that POS go up in flames! :lol
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i bet he got vulched on TakeOff.....
marshmallows anyone?
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I think someone near Lyon is crying now :)
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Yes Straffo, an insurance agent. :D
Something like that, almost happened to me once several years ago.
Got in my Fiat (Fix It Again Tony) 1800 one morning and had a devil of a time getting it to start. It finally turned over, but still seemed weak. I was about to pull out when something told me "Check the Car Over" I stepped out into a rapidly spreading pool of gas.
The fuel pump had developed a leak and was squirting fuel all over the exhaust system. I can just imagine what would have happened when the converter got really hot - can you say - Seminary Student Flambe'
- SEAGOON
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Seagoon, I DID have that happen to me. Friend of mine had someone dump sugar in his gastank, and he decided rather than try to fix it he'd buy a new car. So he GAVE me the old one. I dropped the gas tank and cleaned it, unhooked the fuel line at the carb. end and squirted it out with some alcohol under pressure. Rebuilt the carburetor, cleaned the spark plugs, etc. Here's the fun part.
It was an early 80's GM, and had the metal fuel line up to the carb with the filter inside the carb and a flare fiting connecting the line to the filter casing. The line fitting was darn near welded on, and we ended up twisting the metal fuel line so badly that it was restrictive and had to be cut off. No one had a replacement available, and I was needing to get the car moved ASAP. So I went against my better judgement and made my own temporary fuel line out of some high pressure rubber hose. I cut the twisted part out of the metal line, flared each end, and then worked some rubber fuel line over the flares and put hose clamps behind the flares, hoping that would hold the pressure long enough to get me home. I guess my flares werent even. I started and ran the car, didnt see any leaks, so I started home. 15 miles into a 36 mile trip, someone drove up beside me blaring their horn and leaning out the window. I rolled down my own window, and they were yelling the car was on fire. I had a trail of flame coming out the back of the car and didnt know it. I pulled it over and ran for the ditch. The fire dept was only a couple minutes behind me, having been called by someone else, but they couldnt do much. I watched the front tires explode, the battery explode, and expected the rest of the car to go up any time but then they finally got the fire under control. The battery explosion blew the hood open and they were able to get the water on the fire itself.
Joy. I dont try to manufacture fuel line fittings anymore. :)
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Wow, that really redefines building your own "hot rod." (Sorry couldn't resist.)
Glad you got out of the car before things started blowing up, I've seen how quickly a fuel fed fire spreads and at that point you realize, "Its a car, cars don't need skin grafts or have dependents."
Just out of curiousity, did insurance honor your claim on that one or did the jerry rig fix nix the claim?
- SEAGOON
Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Seagoon, I DID have that happen to me. Friend of mine had someone dump sugar in his gastank, and he decided rather than try to fix it he'd buy a new car. So he GAVE me the old one. I dropped the gas tank and cleaned it, unhooked the fuel line at the carb. end and squirted it out with some alcohol under pressure. Rebuilt the carburetor, cleaned the spark plugs, etc. Here's the fun part.
It was an early 80's GM, and had the metal fuel line up to the carb with the filter inside the carb and a flare fiting connecting the line to the filter casing. The line fitting was darn near welded on, and we ended up twisting the metal fuel line so badly that it was restrictive and had to be cut off. No one had a replacement available, and I was needing to get the car moved ASAP. So I went against my better judgement and made my own temporary fuel line out of some high pressure rubber hose. I cut the twisted part out of the metal line, flared each end, and then worked some rubber fuel line over the flares and put hose clamps behind the flares, hoping that would hold the pressure long enough to get me home. I guess my flares werent even. I started and ran the car, didnt see any leaks, so I started home. 15 miles into a 36 mile trip, someone drove up beside me blaring their horn and leaning out the window. I rolled down my own window, and they were yelling the car was on fire. I had a trail of flame coming out the back of the car and didnt know it. I pulled it over and ran for the ditch. The fire dept was only a couple minutes behind me, having been called by someone else, but they couldnt do much. I watched the front tires explode, the battery explode, and expected the rest of the car to go up any time but then they finally got the fire under control. The battery explosion blew the hood open and they were able to get the water on the fire itself.
Joy. I dont try to manufacture fuel line fittings anymore. :)