<VV> Fuel Pump Issues-WARNING

[Tony Underwood]

At 11:15 AM 4/24/2011, George Jones wrote:
>And you obviously forgot your Corvair emergency repair kit (consisting of
>the BMFH, a spool of baling wire and the large roll of duct tape).
>
>George Jones


I find that a big set of vise-grips will work as well as the BMFH 
when they're clamped tight shut.  They also double as rebar wire pliars.

I'm here to tell you that rebar tie-wire works better than baling 
wire.  Hell, it's even better than coathangers.

And use gaffer tape (broadcast sorts and photographers will know what 
it is) instead of duct tape.  Not so easy to find unless you know 
where to look, but Gorilla Tape is close to being the same thing.



I could have used some kind of wire, coat hanger, baling wire or 
rebar tie wire once, when I blew the muffler off a red '63 Spyder on 
Peter's Creek Rd down from my house late one night while trying to 
diagnose what turned out to be a flaky coil.   Foot to the floor, car 
accelerates then suddenly starts misfiring badly and falls flat on 
its face (coil not producing enough voltage to force a spark through 
the plug when cylinder pressures were high, like in under boost) and 
I lift the throttle and instantly POW! the plugs lite again and the 
flame front hits that muffler filled with a combustible mixture and I 
thought I'd taken a mortar round in the engine bay.

It wouldn't have been so bad if the muffler hadn't blown the headpipe 
end off the rest of the muffler which dropped down and jammed the 
tailpipe into the rear cove panel while the remains of the muffler 
dragged the pavement making sparks.    I stopped, afraid the muffler 
was going to snag on something and get jammed into the rear cove 
sheet metal, and tied the muffler remnants back up with a bungee cord 
and went home noisily.

I had to explain to the Spyder's owner why they needed a muffler that 
had been damaged by a bad coil.



tony..