Read It and Weep

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Read It and Weep

Post by Amskeptic » Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:34 am

BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by zabo » Fri Jan 13, 2017 2:31 pm

I agree with some of the posters in that thread- there is something very suspect about these circumstances..
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Post by Amskeptic » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:47 am

Our own energyturtle lit into this guy. He seemed too blase about his loss. Narcissistic Millenial Disorder?
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by Rusty Sub » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:32 am

Amskeptic wrote:Narcissistic Millenial Disorder?
NMD.
That's funny. =D>
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Post by airkooledchris » Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:53 pm

so does anyone here run one of those blazecut fire suppression systems?
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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by Bleyseng » Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:43 pm

I don't but I change all the fuel lines every other year....
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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by cegammel » Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:56 pm

Looking at blazecut myself... $128 seems fair enough, if they work. What is the max life of our fuel lines, both FI and carb? My 3 year old FI lines look good...from the outside...

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Post by Bleyseng » Tue Jan 17, 2017 9:51 am

cegammel wrote:Looking at blazecut myself... $128 seems fair enough, if they work. What is the max lofe of oir fuel lines, both FI and carb? My 3 year old FI lines look good...from the outside...
I change em out every other year as they dry out and get hard pretty fast.
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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by zabo » Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:33 pm

wow- just went back and looked at that thread- too much drama for me...
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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by Amskeptic » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:45 am

Bleyseng wrote:I don't but I change all the fuel lines every other year....
Ha! See! Problem solved.
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by asiab3 » Thu Feb 09, 2017 8:47 pm

This is the second fire from the CSV in recent memory, if memory serves me, that I've seen on The Samba.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=672335

Luckily, the owner saw it and got it out before any damage could occur. This is leading to easy and ongoing forensics. (He even did some sleuthing before cleaning up the power to look for liquid trace. I'm impressed!)

This was was less recent:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewto ... ngine+fire

In both cases, the lines were new and the owners were paying attention. I am glad we didn't lose any cars, but this trend(?) is alarming.
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Re: Read It and Weep

Post by JLT » Sat Feb 11, 2017 5:28 pm

airkooledchris wrote:so does anyone here run one of those blazecut fire suppression systems?
I do. Does it work? I dunno, and don't really care to find out. I also safety-wire my connection from the fuel line to the carb, and change all the fuel lines every five years.

I came damn near to losing one bus from fire, and I don't want to go through that again.
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