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Re: Shop safety/Healey stuff

To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>, <V4GR@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Shop safety/Healey stuff
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 05:39:09 -0700
Just sitting here snickering to myself....yeah I can remember throttle
tuning a Dual Quad Tunnel ram on a Big Block as a kid with long hair....
Right up to the point it back fired and took half my hair with it....

I think I was looking into it to see if both throttle blades were opening
all the way... don't remember much but the smell of hair burning and a
garden hose ....

Funny as hell now.... but at the time I thought that hair was important....

Keith

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> From: V4GR@aol.com
> To: kturk@ala.net; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Shop safety/Healey stuff
> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 4:09 PM
> 
> One safety thing I learned when first starting the Chrysler is drill
drain 
> holes in low spot on zoom headers. I cranked that thing for quite a while

> building oil pressure checking for leaks and what not. Using a remote
starter 
> so I could observe the engine. Then I turned on ignition and leaned over 
> motor grabbed the throttle shaft and hit it. There was fire everywhere.
It 
> got real hot right now. I backed on out of there post haste, and found my

> shirt to be on fire, also my plastic watch band.                      It 
> was easy to pat out the shirt but that damn watch would not stop burning.
I 
> still don't wear a watch, and I drill drain holes in zoomies.  Rich Fox

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