Checked your fuel line lately? **UP IN SMOKE**
 

Checked your fuel lines lately?

Kent, a friend of mine that's been helping on my restoration called a while ago, then sent some pics via email.

Was driving along with his wife and the truck caught on fire. Fuel line leak somewhere.

They're both OK, thank God, but his 79 is "toast" figuratively speaking.

I've ridden in this truck many times. It had the wheels from the truck I'm restoring now, on it. Sure hated to hear about it and even worse, to see it like this.

He sent some pics, thought I would post them here:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck005.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck007.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck008.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck010.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck012.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck013.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck016.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck018.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck025.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...t/truck034.jpg

Re: Checked your fuel line lately? **UP IN SMOKE**
 

man that is horrible! that was 1 hot @ss fire... im glad their physically ok.

my lines were ready to go by the switching valve and tanks.

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glad to hear they are ok.. the truck can be replaced they cant... there is one bit of good news tho... the truck still qualifies for the cars for cash program !!

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WOW

The drive shaft and the carburetor . . . just melted!

Glad everyone was ok!

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Must have 'overheated' since there is no radiator! Sorry, I know it's in bad taste but I had to say it :-). Glad the truck was the only sacrifice here. . .

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man that awful, glad to hear there ok,after seeing this I'm going to check the fuel lines

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:jdp: Glad everyone is ok. Hate to see a truck go down like that.

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Wow

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Sorry to hear about the truck, but happy your friend and his wife are okay.

Do you have any 'before' pics?

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I think we'll all be checking fuel lines this week, what a shame

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X2 :smoke:

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HOLY COW! :eek: That looks like the vehicles that fire departments use for training...cars with accelerants in them. That was one nasty fire! Glad they are ok. Sorry to hear about the truck.

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X3 ......Glad no one was hurt !


Guys, While your checking those fuel lines don't forget the hoses at the tank sending unit, I just found a cracked one on my 97 last weekend. I had replaced them all 5 yrs. ago for the PO, I'm going back this time with braided lines.

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Remember to use the EFI high pressure rubber hose on EFI vehicles. It's more expensive but has a higher burst strength!:devil:

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Glad everyone is okay. Thanks for the advice on the fuel hose!!!!!!!

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Holy cow. Sucks to see a square go out like that but it's a good thing everyone is okay though.

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Sorry to see any Square totaled...

I got blasted here about warning members about rubber fuel lines leaking at the engine , especially this photo.

GM installs a 1 piece line from the pump to Carb for a reason, this is it.

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...7/DSCN0223.png

Desert

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Glad no one was hurt, But what a wakeup call i will be checking my lines soon..

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yup noticed a smell of gas ,mine was spitting vapours @ the sender
i prefer to use FI clamps they don't shred the rubber
lost two friends(a couple) in a car/gas fire almost 20 years ago
the PO of this truck had a electric fuel pump between the block pump and the carb
never shut off,seemed to have sucked threw the 1/4 return enough to cause it to crack

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old parts replaced

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Sorry to hear about his truck, glad they are both OK though!

Although, on a positive note, I am very happy to see that this truck lived a nice long life at 107 years, that there is still enough fossil fuels left in the future to power these gas hungry beasts, and most of all that time travel was finally discovered and used to send us these pictures from 2086 to warn us about these 107 year old rubber fuel lines :lol:

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Thanks for the reminder. Poor truck.:whine:

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Lmao!

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I agree, I see so many cars and trucks forsale and at car shows where shadetree mechanics run a rubber fuel line from the pump to the carb. That's a big fat no no. Some tube, a flare tool, and a tube bender is all you need to make your own lines.
A little practice and it's pretty easy, doesn't take much time. Can't believe all the nice cars I see with tons of money and time spent only to use a cheap (and dangerous) rubber fuel line up to the carb. Always been a pet pieve of mine. Keep the rubber lines to a minimum and short as possible (frame to engine/sending unit to frame).

Glad to hear everyone is okay.

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THat's sorta what my truck looked like 35 years ago when I learned about not useing rubber fuel lines. At least I had a tailgate left over. Not a mark on it. It got used on another truck till it to went to that great metal scrap pile in the sky. It didn't survive the second time. Freight train got it!!

You don't even need to know how to flare lines. Just buy pre-built lines at the auto emporium and bend them to fit.