On my buddy's 77 Jag XJS you could activate the firewall-mounted
fuel shutoff impact switch if you knew where to kick the passenger side
of the firewall at that spot. Great fun.
--- Rick Brown
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Crider, James A.
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:34 AM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Cc: redraevyn@softhome.net
> Subject: Re: Off Topic: Merc Sable Fuel/Ignition Shutoff?
>
>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:56:25 -0500, "Red Raevyn"
> <redraevyn@softhome.net> wrote:
>
> >Consider me edjemucated. : ) It'll take a lot more than that to
> get me on
> >Ford's production side, but I appreciate a lesson anytime, thanks for
> >sharing. I see how it would make a lot of sense to have it cut
> off in an
> >accident situation and such, but what she spelled to me was just
> losing the
> >passenger side onto the gravel and bringing it back - I think
> I'll have to
> >take that as the questionable factor ;)
>
> Probably a good idea, Greg. The fuel pump shutoff switch should
> only activate with impact beyond a certain 'g' threshold -- so
> just going onto gravel wouldn't be a problem. Going onto gravel
> and through a few holes might trip it, though.
>
> Don't castigate Ford for a safety feature -- as others have said,
> the point of the switch is to shut off the electric fuel pump in
> the event of an impact so that, if a fuel line is breached, the
> pump isn't pumping raw fuel out into a hostile environment. And
> its location, operation, and procedure for resetting is quite
> clearly described in the owner's manual... so RTFM certainly applies here.
>
> Jim Crider
> autojim@despammed.com
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