I got One !!!!!!
I had a 71 GTO that the carb was giving me fits. When it was cold I would
have to take off the air cleaner and physically hold open the choke
butterfly to get it to start. The thing would spit back fire through the
carb at times. This one cold night my wife was doing the key duty and there
I was wearing an old green army jacket with the big sleeves, needless to say
the fumes got up the sleeve and in the zipped up jacket. The carb spit back
and ignited the fumes ! A big flash and I felt the heat on my chest, I
didn't catch fire but it burnt the hair off my chest, eyebrows, and eye
lashes.....
Stunk too
-----Original Message-----
From: Mostrom, Paul [mailto:Mostrom.Paul@principal.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:06 AM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: RE: Fire extinguishers
Many years ago, when I was still a professional mechanic, I was working
inside
a van when a fuel leak started a fire on top of the engine. Calmly (yeah
right!) I got the fire extinguisher from the wall and proceeded to fill the
inside of the van with that powder. It put out the fire all right, but
after
I started breathing again and my pulse got below 150, I noticed this acrid
smelling, fine yellow powder all over the engine, front seats, dash, carpet,
ect.. Spent the next several hours vacuuming, dusting, scrubbing and
everything else I could come up with to get that powder cleaned up. When I
was done, you couldn't tell that there had been a 3-foot flame on top of the
engine.
I was missing a large part of my moustache and one eyebrow though.
Thanks,
Paul Mostrom
'77 Spitfire 1500
'80 Ford F-100 (Triumph Support Vehicle)
'Black holes, where God divided by zero......'
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