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RE: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold

To: "Hanlon, Bill" <Bill.Hanlon@COMPAQ.com>
Subject: RE: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold
From: "A.B." <bigfred@unm.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:54:05 -0600 (MDT)
Isn't that why you pull the plugs?
-alfie


On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Hanlon, Bill wrote:

> NOT a good answer!  It would be possible to get enough liquid 
> gasoline in a cylinder to be more than would fit in the combustion 
> chamber when the piston reaches TDC on the combustion stroke.  
> Liquids aren't very compressible.  Net result is that something 
> has to give.  Possible candidates are a hole in the top of the 
> piston or a bent rod.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe [mailto:chevy1@jps.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:51 AM
> To: SnappyDog1@aol.com; oletrucks
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold
> 
> 
> Why not just pull all the sparkplugs and crank the engine over?   Remove the
> coil wire first so as not to have a source of ignition "or just leave the
> key off".
> 
> Joe Garcia
> Yuba City, CA
> 1950 Chevrolet 3100
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SnappyDog1@aol.com <SnappyDog1@aol.com>
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold
> 
> 
> >> Put a Rag In It and let it siphon out
> >
> >>A match!
> >
> >Thanks Hoot!  Thanks Blaine!  Those are exactly the kind of suggestions I
> was
> >looking for.  I had thought about hose siphoning but figured it would leave
> a
> >lot of gas behind, particularly in those hard to reach areas.  The rag
> siphon
> >should do exactly what I have in mind (I really didn't want to pull the
> >manifold).  As for the match... I'm sorely tempted...
> >My grandfather used to always holler at me: "G** d*** it, you're going to
> >flood it!" when I'd tromp the pedal too much in his '51 3/4 ton.  That was
> >back when our now 'classic' ADs were still just just plain old trucks.
> >Though he's 20 years dead, I could hear him hollering still when I looked
> and
> >saw my surprised reflection looking back out of a manifold full of
> gasoline.
> >I now understand why it's called "flooding."
> >
> >
> >Barrett Revis
> >Sparks, NV
> >
> >'53 3105
> >'48 3105
> >
> >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> >
> 
> 
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