In a message dated 4/27/2006 9:12:45 PM Mountain Standard Time,
McGaheyRx@aol.com writes:
but a couple
of times in several decades of ownership I have had gas dripping all over a
TR6 exhaust (once from that line between the carbs leaking and once from a
flooding rear carb) and its pretty scary to watch it hiss and boil away,
but it
doesn't burst into flame
Does anybody know the flash point of gasoline?
It would be interesting to know how much hotter the exhaust would have to
be
to ignite gasoline.
I think you need to re-word the last sentence of your first paragraph above
to say "didn't" burst into flame, rather than "doesn't"
I don't know the flash point of gasoline, but I have see test films,
thankfully using a crash dummy simulating a cigarette in the mouth of a truck
driver fueling with diesel. You can throw a lit match into a pan of diesel
and
most times it will extenguish the match. In the film, on a hot day, the
diesel fumes ignighted when the cigarette was still some 30 inches away from
the
tank being filled.
If Paul is willing to take the time and money to move his fuel line away
from his exhaust, I don't see how I could fault him. Better safe than sorry.
Robert Houston
Texan in NM
63 TR4
73 MG Midget
74.5 MGBGT
_Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even
though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows
neither
victory nor defeat._ (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1949.html)
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1949.html#email) _ Theodore Roosevelt_
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Theodore_Roosevelt/) (1858 - 1919)
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