<VV> Detonation and overheating

[tony..]

>
> On 3/3/2020 12:11 PM, Harry Yarnell (Verizon) via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> Do it right; take the top cover off.
>
>
> Yep.  When we brought the '67 500 home, on the way it overheated if 
> you looked at it wrong.    Yanked the top of the engine off and found 
> TWO mice nests one on each side.  One nest had a couple of dead mice 
> mummys in it.  Not sure what engineered their demise. Also, under one 
> of the nests was the stained fragmented remains of a pink shop rag.
>
>
> So yeah, pull the cover off and clean out the debris.
>
>
> After demousing it, the car also acted as if it was running out of gas 
> if you went faster than about 40 mph.  Bought gas, thinking maybe the 
> gauge sending unit was lying about showing 3/4 of a tank.   It 
> wasn't.   Went around and around, swapped out the fuel pump, no joy.  
> I tried the "hose on the fuel line" thing and tried to blow through 
> it.  No joy there either.   So, I broke out the air hose and blew some 
> air through the hose which was attached to the steel line feeding the 
> fuel pump.   I asked SWMBO to remove the gas cap and listen up front 
> for any sounds, bubbling or whatever.   Nuthin.   She came back and 
> asked what I was doing, told her, then tried more air pressure.   
> Finally, I held the button down til nothing else was coming out of the 
> end of the nozzle that was crammed into the high side of the hose, and 
> suddenly air began flowing, hissing nicely and I thought "Cool, I 
> probably just blew the sock filter off the end of the pickup" but 
> before I finished that thought SWMBO yelled "STOP!".   A gusher of 
> stale foul smelling gasoline was spurting out of the filler spout 
> across the driveway and onto the neighbor's lawn.  It was a good thing 
> she hadn't still had her ear to the filler spout.
>
> We took the car for a road test, ran well, no more troubles. Went to 
> eat, then to the grocers, enjoying a day's outing with the car.  Came 
> home that evening and saw a swath of lawn the size of a coffee table 
> that was already dying... shriveled and flattened. She didn't see it 
> but I did.   Next morning (sunday) I saw the grass already turning 
> brown, and wondered what the neighbor was gonna say about it.
>
>
> I went to the basement and grabbed a can of green Krylon enamel that 
> I'd bought for something but never used it, and I spray-painted the 
> dying grass.  Seriously.  It matched reasonably well.  The neighbor 
> never noticed.   Or if she did she never said anything.   I never 
> pulled the sending unit to replace the filter sock.   I added a 
> filter, one of those thick glass boys with the screw-on ends. (cut a 
> chunk out of the steel line and YEAH I have other steel lines to 
> replace it if need be).  Several times I've removed it, unscrewed it, 
> and emptied all manner and sorts of crud from inside it.
>
>  It works.   Eventually the grass grew back.
>
> Yeah... I'm a jackleg.
>
>
> tony..
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>
>

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