How's that going to happen with the sparkplugs removed?
Joe Garcia
Yuba City, CA
1950 Chevrolet 3100
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hanlon, Bill <Bill.Hanlon@COMPAQ.com>
To: 'joe' <chevy1@jps.net>; SnappyDog1@aol.com <SnappyDog1@aol.com>;
oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: RE: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold
>NOT a good answer! It would be possible to get enough liquid
>gasoline in a cylinder to be more than would fit in the combustion
>chamber when the piston reaches TDC on the combustion stroke.
>Liquids aren't very compressible. Net result is that something
>has to give. Possible candidates are a hole in the top of the
>piston or a bent rod.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: joe [mailto:chevy1@jps.net]
>Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:51 AM
>To: SnappyDog1@aol.com; oletrucks
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold
>
>
>Why not just pull all the sparkplugs and crank the engine over? Remove
the
>coil wire first so as not to have a source of ignition "or just leave the
>key off".
>
>Joe Garcia
>Yuba City, CA
>1950 Chevrolet 3100
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: SnappyDog1@aol.com <SnappyDog1@aol.com>
>To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Date: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:10 AM
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Draining Manifold
>
>
>>> Put a Rag In It and let it siphon out
>>
>>>A match!
>>
>>Thanks Hoot! Thanks Blaine! Those are exactly the kind of suggestions I
>was
>>looking for. I had thought about hose siphoning but figured it would
leave
>a
>>lot of gas behind, particularly in those hard to reach areas. The rag
>siphon
>>should do exactly what I have in mind (I really didn't want to pull the
>>manifold). As for the match... I'm sorely tempted...
>>My grandfather used to always holler at me: "G** d*** it, you're going to
>>flood it!" when I'd tromp the pedal too much in his '51 3/4 ton. That was
>>back when our now 'classic' ADs were still just just plain old trucks.
>>Though he's 20 years dead, I could hear him hollering still when I looked
>and
>>saw my surprised reflection looking back out of a manifold full of
>gasoline.
>>I now understand why it's called "flooding."
>>
>>
>>Barrett Revis
>>Sparks, NV
>>
>>'53 3105
>>'48 3105
>>
>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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