<VV> gas tank leak (a tip - but also humor)

[cjcavitt at comcast.net]

another tip: when cutting a corvair in half remember that there are fuel lines running under the car :( Ya i know seems pretty obvious. a few years ago at cu i was working late scrapping out a early vair and the scrapper couldnt fit the car on his load so he pulled out a torch as i just sat back and watched him cut in half not thinking of the fuel lines. WOW! what a fire ball, what to do? well for me that would be run in the other direction screaming but hay who's to say that was the wrong thing to do? until i realized i was about to lose a whole lot of inventory if i didnt go back, plus what was i going to tell lon when the fire department called him? It would be real hard to say ya you know how i have parted out over a thousand vairs well i guess i finally realized with the motor in the back and the tank in the front, there must be lines in the middle, ya that doesnt fly :(  curt

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From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net> 

> I probably should not admit in public - but while doing a floor patch job on 
> a (semi-beater) LM, I managed to drill a hole in the tank. Yes... it was 
> full at the time and the gas came spurting into the passenger compartment. 
> What to do! First, I stuck a sheet metal screw through the floor and into 
> the tank. Well, can't leave it like that. Quickly, I stuck about three 
> sticks of gum (Big Red as I recall) in my mouth and chewed as fast as 
> possible. Got it good and pliable and applied it to the hole (removing the 
> screw). It HELD! It was late and the stores were closed. 
> 
> Later, JR 
>