<VV> Fuel Pump Issues-WARNING

[George Jones]

And you obviously forgot your Corvair emergency repair kit (consisting of
the BMFH, a spool of baling wire and the large roll of duct tape).

George Jones
--------------------------------
Eastern Division Director,
Corvair Society of America (CORSA)
Performance Corvair Group
Central Florida Corvair Club (Since 2009)
Tidewater Corvair Club (since 1987)
Central Virginia Corvair Club (since 2006)
CORSA (since 1987)
'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
'66 Monza Coupe Custom


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net
> wrote:

> At 10:11 AM 4/24/2011, Frank DuVal wrote:
>
> >A backfire in the muffler will not set your can on fire. But it could
> >open up the muffler with all that gas available. Your ears will
> >ring....
>
>
> Correct.
>
> The scene:  The Chicago CORSA convention, mid-1980s.
>
> The vehicle:  1962 Greenbrier, bone stock but with racing gas and,
> um, a little advance cranked in to the distributor to give the stock
> 80-hp engine some poop.
>
> The time:  7:00 AM.
>
> The location:  Hotel parking lot.
>
> The van, having been driven to dinner the night before, had been
> parked since returning from the restaurant.  I hit hit the key, and
>
> ka-BOOOM!
>
> Blew the muffler apart like an exploding cigar.  Everyone who later
> looked at the muffler laughed out loud.  But more importantly,
> everyone in the hotel who was still asleep was no longer asleep.
>
> No vendors had a replacement muffler on-site.  When I asked Larry
> Claypool if he had one back at his shop, he said,"that was YOU?!"  He
> had been, literally, on the other side of the hotel at the time of the
> blast.
>
> He did not have a muffler readily available.  I drove home, 790
> miles, with that splintered muffler on the van.  My ears are still
> ringing...
>
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