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more trivia (was: My car really is picky)

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Subject: more trivia (was: My car really is picky)
From: tjhiggin@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 6:47:55 CDT
Gavin Walker writes:
> There was a three foot puddle of .... fuel.  Quickly race to the fuel 
> filter, no leaks there.  For a second I thought I'd ruptured a fuel 
> line.  Back under the car and I see that the fuel had come out of the 
> fresh air pipe of the charcoal canister.  The only place this could 
> come from was the float bowl vent pipes...
> 
> Lifting up each [carb] piston I peered down the throats with a torch.

My eyebrows nearly jumped off my forehead when I first read this!  
Then I remembered that "torch" in the UK & Oz is "flashlight" in the 
USA.  This is definitely one for the trivia file.  Thanks, Gavin!

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T.J. Higgins     | tjhiggin@ingr.com         | (205) 730-7922
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