[AT] Gas In Oil/OT

[charlie hill]

A friend of mine, years ago, had a 292 Chevy 6 Cyl in a boat.  I drove up to 
his place and found him with the boat on a trailer trying to get it started. 
I didn't know how long they had been messing with it or what they had done 
and started to try and help. They had jumper cables on the battery and were 
ginning it over.  About the time I leaned over the engine to grab ahold of 
the carb linkage I heard a muffled "cough" down deep in the engine.  I 
jumped back just in time to miss the second BANG and the top of the flame 
arrestor coming off.  It seems they had been ginning it over for a long 
time, it was badly flooded (that's why I grabed the linkage to hold it open) 
and it flashed off inside the engine.

It didn't do any mechanical damage to the engine but he had  to have it 
completely disassembled and replace all of the gaskets.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Gas In Oil/OT


>I drained more than 9 quarts of oil/gas from a 305 chevvy with a 5 quart
> capacity (with filter) one time.  I purchased a 1983 9 passenger wagon 
> from
> a man in our area.  His grandson drove it up from Va. for Grandpa to sell
> for him.  After it was in our humid late fall weather for a week or two, 
> it
> would no longer start and was verrrry flooded from all of their attempts 
> to
> get it running.  After I towed it home I found the worst spark plug wires 
> I
> have ever seen.  Insulation completely gone in many areas.  After a good
> tune with plugs, wires, cap and rotor and an oil change the car ran fine 
> for
> several years.  When I found all that gas in the crank case, I was a 
> little
> afraid it might blow up in my garage.  I actually quit smoking for a few
> minutes.
>
> Charlie V. in WNY
>
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