Tom Sweeney
04-13-2003, 10:36 PM
This definately falls under the tip of the day from the village idiot heading :rolleyes:
I was tuning up my old F150 truck. It's a basic beater work truck that has been in desperate need of a tune up for over a year.
It has a holley 4BBL carb on it. I was having trouble getting the float set on the carb so I took the float bowl off. Of course between taking of the fuel line & taking off the bowl a fair amount of gas spilled onto the intake manifold. Unfortunately I didn't notice that when I took the bowl off a tiny O ring fell out of the fuel pipe that goes from the front to the back bowl. I also squirted the carb pretty good with carb cleaner.
You see where this is going right :rolleyes:
Well I put it all back together unknowingly sans the missing O ring. I started up the truck but it backfired through the carb due to the carb cleaner.
This wouldn't have been any big deal except for the fact that gas was gushing out of the fuel pipe due to the missing O Ring.
The back fire caught the spewing gas on fire Which quickly got almost out of control due to all the gas on the intake. :eek: I grabbed an old coat & tried to smother it - but it was too far gone for that. :mad:
I hustled into the house & grabbed the kitchen fire extinguisher & hustled back & was able to put out the fire before it did any damage - especially to my brand new plug wires. or my sisters brand new ranger pickup parked right next to it. :mad:
But hey I probably saved about $100 doing it myself. Course I'm going to have to buy a carb rebuild kit to get the tiny 3¢ O Ring I lost so I might as well rebuild the carb while I'm at it.
Next time I do a tune up I'll have to remember to buy marshmallows ;)
I was tuning up my old F150 truck. It's a basic beater work truck that has been in desperate need of a tune up for over a year.
It has a holley 4BBL carb on it. I was having trouble getting the float set on the carb so I took the float bowl off. Of course between taking of the fuel line & taking off the bowl a fair amount of gas spilled onto the intake manifold. Unfortunately I didn't notice that when I took the bowl off a tiny O ring fell out of the fuel pipe that goes from the front to the back bowl. I also squirted the carb pretty good with carb cleaner.
You see where this is going right :rolleyes:
Well I put it all back together unknowingly sans the missing O ring. I started up the truck but it backfired through the carb due to the carb cleaner.
This wouldn't have been any big deal except for the fact that gas was gushing out of the fuel pipe due to the missing O Ring.
The back fire caught the spewing gas on fire Which quickly got almost out of control due to all the gas on the intake. :eek: I grabbed an old coat & tried to smother it - but it was too far gone for that. :mad:
I hustled into the house & grabbed the kitchen fire extinguisher & hustled back & was able to put out the fire before it did any damage - especially to my brand new plug wires. or my sisters brand new ranger pickup parked right next to it. :mad:
But hey I probably saved about $100 doing it myself. Course I'm going to have to buy a carb rebuild kit to get the tiny 3¢ O Ring I lost so I might as well rebuild the carb while I'm at it.
Next time I do a tune up I'll have to remember to buy marshmallows ;)