Billy Ray proclaimed:
The few good ole boys that will admit it, tended to run the tanks themselves in the roll bars with the quick connect to the intake manifold. About the same era as the guys who tried making their restrictor plates out of metallic coated styrofoam...not that I would have any idea how to fabricate one of those, no sir, not me Mr. France.
On TV every vehicle accident or collision ends in an exploding fuel tank. In the 6 1/2 years I was a fireman I NEVER saw a gasoline or diesel fuel tank explode. I have seen them rupture and burn but never explode.
Billy Ray proclaimed:
Ah, you never had Stone Phillips around to add the obligatory squib to the gas tank to get one to explode. I've seen a couple, in all cases the tank only let go long after some other part of the vehicle caught on fire.
I recall seeing that on the news years ago.
Not that this has fark-all to do with Jeeps, but... Cars explode on teevee and in movies because it Looks! Cool!, not because it has anything to do with reality, as you know from experience. Not a lot of car chases end up 1) on a roll-over on a city street (as was the standard in the 1970s and 80s) or 2) by plowing through a push-cart full of fruit, either. One could list things that movies don't do "right" until the cows come home: Gun sounds, animal behaviour, computer sounds and graphics, any number of explosion F/X, rain, medical proceedures, car sounds (squealing tires on sand), building fires without smoke, vintage aircraft, and on and on. Most of those mistakes are because there's a preception that audiences expect it, it makes the shot more "exciting" for the producer (it isn't exciting if the stunned Hero crawls out of the wreck and stumble away from something that just _sits_ there), or, sometimes, simple misinformation based on watching too many movies and not enough looking out the window (or, "we always do it that way"). Cars _always_ explode, right?
Billy Ray wrote:
Did you put them on your CJ? 258? I just put a remanned 258 in my CJ, difference in power from the 24 year old engine was amazing, was thinking of headers too, if yes to the above, what kind did you go with? Greg
I watched a Bollywood movie, where the horse went over the cliff, and exploded into flames.
Earle
Billy Ray wrote: "On TV every vehicle accident or collision ends in an exploding fuel tank. In the 6 1/2 years I was a fireman I NEVER saw a gasoline or diesel fuel tank explode. I have seen them rupture and burn but never explode."
That is because of design. The rubber seals and connections to the tanks will burn off first. The gas cap can blow off and is designed to. LSU Fireman School has a neat video of a gas tank exposed to fire and the gas cap flying off. It landed about a block away.
As a volunteer fireman for 18 years, I also have never seen one explode. I fought many car fires and a few tanker fires even they did not exploded. The only explosions I have seen in my years of service have been 2 rear bumpers that flew off cars on fire. One as we approached the car with the fire truck to position it to put out the fire and another while it was still in the garage. First one the bumper flew about 50 feet and the second one took out part of the garage wall and garage door. It is pretty amazing how those 10 mile and hour shock bumpers can heat up and send a bumper flying. This can also happen on those gas assisted lift shocks for hatchback and windows.
Only other thing I seen exploded was a propane cylinder that leveled a house prior to our arrival. The cylinder was on a barbecue grill in a utility room. Leveled a two story home when it went. This one started because a kid spilled a 5 gallon can of gasoline in the utility room with a gas water heater. The kid was burned pretty badly and survived for about 4 weeks. That is why you never store these items indoors by a gas water heater.
Sarge
I never saw a multiple rollover driver walk away but I have seen where a person drove through walls, over 12 inch high concrete curbs taking out a
16x16 brick pillar, across 4 lane roads without hitting anyone, drive around in a field missing all the trees, back across the 4 lane, back down the median between the road and the shopping center (I think I forgot to mention she drove up an incline that would make any Jeeper proud), back around the parking lot for a while and finally make a new drive in window for the bank.When we arrived she was sitting on the curb laughing her head off drunk as a skunk with a chunk of the 16x16 brick post still on her hood that she knocked off that came from in front of the bar.
The cops retraced her path by following her tracks, fallen debris, and one eyewitness. She woke him up while driving around in his backyard.
We had a rash of dumpster fires for a while that progressed into a full criminal investigation after a fireman had an aerosol can (propane propellant) explode as the fire flared when he lifted the lid. His 1/2 face shield took the brunt of the heat/blast before it melted... onto his face.
After a good Mexican meal or a bad Chinese meal I feel the same way...
Current Seattle (King County Metro) Bus information
Some interesting Alternative energy Bus Info
LNG is liquefied natural gas. This was maybe ten years ago. I see from Billy Ray's link, that Seattle is still committed to making people think that its busses run clean. Bill's question cracked me up. Is it true?
Earle
Is that the same as LPG ( Liquid Petroleum Gas) ? See, you guys callling 'petrol' gas doesn't help :-)
environmental
LPG is propane, LNG is refrigerated methane:
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