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Re: Pasta in my fuel tank

To: Cliff Hansen <chansen@exis.net>
Subject: Re: Pasta in my fuel tank
From: Jeff Johnson <jguy@erinet.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:16:10 -0400
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <3.0.5.32.19980501171959.007a06e0@mailhub.exis.net>
Cliff;
Probably dog food, dead cat remains, and so on.  Geez, the pasta stuff is 
starting
to sound like a good thing to find.

Jeff Johnson
'76 TR6

Cliff Hansen wrote:

> I cleaned my sediment bowl last fall and to my amusement found a
> perfectly preserved, very dead, spider, along with all the little grody
> bits that collect in that bowl.
>
> I cleaned the bowl again yesterday.  I found about 4" of what looked like
> linguine, neatly coiled in the bottom of the bowl.  It was definitely straight
> not curved, off-white/grey.  It mushed up between my fingers like one
> would expect gasoline soaked noodles to mush up.
>
> I can't imagine a gasket in the fuel system that would look like linguine.
> So I must assume that someone was feeding this car Italian.
>
> Wonder what else I'll find when I pull that tank and clean it....
>
> Cliff Hansen
> chansen@exis.net
> 1966 TR-4A CTC 64615L




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