<VV> Detonation and overheating

[Hugo Miller]

What an anti-climax. I was waiting for the bit where your wife got a 
face full of stale gasoline. I reckon you - and she - had a lucky escape 
there, even if your neighbor's lawn didn't. You can never get the smell 
of stale gasoline out of your nostrils, can you! But your story has 
given me an idea - I have all sorts of nasty green stuff growing in my 
back yard - and old gasoline (of which I have plenty) is a lot cheaper 
than Round-up.
Love the idea of painting grass. That's the sort of thing that gets on 
Youtube these days ;)

On 2020-03-03 20:50, tony.. via VirtualVairs wrote:
>>
>> On 3/3/2020 12:11 PM, Harry Yarnell (Verizon) via VirtualVairs 
>> wrote:
>>> Do it right; take the top cover off.
>>
>>
>> Yep.  When we brought the '67 500 home, on the way it overheated if 
>> you looked at it wrong.    Yanked the top of the engine off and found 
>> TWO mice nests one on each side.  One nest had a couple of dead mice 
>> mummys in it.  Not sure what engineered their demise. Also, under one 
>> of the nests was the stained fragmented remains of a pink shop rag.
>>
>>
>> So yeah, pull the cover off and clean out the debris.
>>
>>
>> After demousing it, the car also acted as if it was running out of 
>> gas if you went faster than about 40 mph.  Bought gas, thinking maybe 
>> the gauge sending unit was lying about showing 3/4 of a tank.   It 
>> wasn't.   Went around and around, swapped out the fuel pump, no joy.  
>> I tried the "hose on the fuel line" thing and tried to blow through 
>> it.  No joy there either.   So, I broke out the air hose and blew some 
>> air through the hose which was attached to the steel line feeding the 
>> fuel pump.   I asked SWMBO to remove the gas cap and listen up front 
>> for any sounds, bubbling or whatever.   Nuthin.   She came back and 
>> asked what I was doing, told her, then tried more air pressure.   
>> Finally, I held the button down til nothing else was coming out of the 
>> end of the nozzle that was crammed into the high side of the hose, and 
>> suddenly air began flowing, hissing nicely and I thought "Cool, I 
>> probably just blew the sock filter off the end of the pickup" but 
>> before I finished that thought SWMBO yelled "STOP!".   A gusher of 
>> stale foul smelling gasoline was spurting out of the filler spout 
>> across the driveway and onto the neighbor's lawn.  It was a good thing 
>> she hadn't still had her ear to the filler spout.
>>
>> We took the car for a road test, ran well, no more troubles. Went to 
>> eat, then to the grocers, enjoying a day's outing with the car.  Came 
>> home that evening and saw a swath of lawn the size of a coffee table 
>> that was already dying... shriveled and flattened. She didn't see it 
>> but I did.   Next morning (sunday) I saw the grass already turning 
>> brown, and wondered what the neighbor was gonna say about it.
>>
>>
>> I went to the basement and grabbed a can of green Krylon enamel that 
>> I'd bought for something but never used it, and I spray-painted the 
>> dying grass.  Seriously.  It matched reasonably well.  The neighbor 
>> never noticed.   Or if she did she never said anything.   I never 
>> pulled the sending unit to replace the filter sock.   I added a 
>> filter, one of those thick glass boys with the screw-on ends. (cut a 
>> chunk out of the steel line and YEAH I have other steel lines to 
>> replace it if need be).  Several times I've removed it, unscrewed it, 
>> and emptied all manner and sorts of crud from inside it.
>>
>>  It works.   Eventually the grass grew back.
>>
>> Yeah... I'm a jackleg.
>>
>>
>> tony..
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