I don't know the flash point of gasoline, but I agree... It typically needs
a spark to ignite... which begs the question, why is the generator located
under the carburetors? <grin>
I thought about that fact a lot as I limped home after I knew the drive end
bearing in my generator had failed.
Kurtis Jones
Russellville, Arkansas
1963 TR4 - CT19389L
1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963
----- Original Message -----
From: <McGaheyRx@aol.com>
To: <dorpaul@negia.net>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] why gas & exhaust on same side?
> probably because you can pour gasoline directly on a hot exhaust pipe or
> manifold and it doesn't burn - not that i would do it deliberately, 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.
=== This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register
=== http://www.vtr.org
|