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Re-fuel pump run-on

To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re-fuel pump run-on
From: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-to: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Dear Spridgeteers,

As I wrote earlier, yesterday my fuel pump ran on continuously at start-up.
I smelled fuel as I pulled away. It has not happened again (yet). The reply
I got on this is below (thanks to the sender). Has anyone else had this
run-on problem and what were the results?

>This is EXACTLY what my first Lotus did moments before it burst into
>flames.  I don't know what to tell you, other than if it happens again look
>for leaks, and if you find no leaks look for another fuel pump.  I would
>not screw around - I found out the hard way!

Thanks,

Jeff

Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Vision
http://www.emory.edu/molvis
"Seeing the Future in a Very Tiny Way"



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