Would be flamer...

Now that I have your attetion.....I recently (yesterday) replaced my steering box, and decided to lube the torsion bar ends, after discovering the zerk fittings...

After purchasing a flex hose for the gun, I lubed the joints, installed the belly pan, and removed the blocks and jack....

While loading the tools into the car, and cleaning up, I noticed a STRONG order of eau de octane....Looking down, and I'm standing in a spreading pool of gas.... The "OH S--T!" light is blazing away....

Rapidly jack up car, slide a concrete mixing tub under it, drop the belly pan.....Broken connector hose at the tank...Dry rot and uncommon movement.

1 hr. to lower the tank level, repair the hose, etc., etc......

If you have 4 or more years on your car, check this out now....

All's well that ends well...

Leon C.

Good tip! Glad you caught it before the fireworks.

A torched fiberglass car is not a pretty site! Looks like a Speedster made by spiders.

Oh, Geez.....

Now Lane's gonna be pulling his gas tank out!!!

Good hook on the title Leon! I thought you were going to raise a little online hell.
However I DO know where you're comin' from Amigo. With the old design and all mods we do, fuel leaks are a very important issue for sure.
Cheers, Ernie

Nah, Gordon, I did that last year. It's all good for now.

The exhaust system, et al, from Carey is in, so I may be busy on it this weekend, though.

ALL the flexible fuel lines should be checked annually for hardness and stiffness (no comments here from Vince please). That means all those little connectors between hard lines and equipment, wherever they are located. Air cooled engines tend to run hot and embrittle all soft tubing and other rubber parts. This has been well covered in the past.

Thank God, Lane has something to do to keep him busy and out of trouble....

One of mine came from FL to MO loaded topside on an enclosed truck. It was empty when it arrived. PO said he put 5 gallons in it. Found the hose out of the tank leaked. Someones car below mine got covered in gas. Hope it wasn't expensive...

I miss that car Ben; I loved it, especially with the Porsche four banger in it!!

Leon your an idiot....ok that's what people were expecting for a flamer.

I'm kidding of course.

I wonder, had you not caught that in time, if it would have looked like a Spyder built by Speedsters.

We kinda ran into some of this kinda trouble during the beelte's converon to fully automatic after pulling the engine and tranny 3 times we would vice crimp the hose near the tank .

The last time I noted a order and we found all that crimpimg had done in the hose to the tank. It was weeping just a little..

I decided right then to go to the local lawn mowwer repair store and buy a in line plastic shut off .

We switched out the old hoses and now sence it will have to com down AGAIN!!> can just shut off the fuel near the tank.

This would also be handy for winter storage.

I also got good new this week about a local shop that I though had closed is back and stillmaking a wide aray of Stainless steel teflon core hoses .

I now have my Christmas wish for this year. to rehose both. cars completely On Both fuel and brakes.

Oh Leon. Thats one old Flame I don't want to see!

Thanks Recardo. I regret selling it now but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do...

Ben