Re: [Chrysler300] New question on fuel tank sending units

[jlsavard@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 12/28/2007 7:48:22 P.M. Eastern Standard  Time, 
dan300f@xxxxxxx writes:

Hi all:

Years ago when I worked for the telephone  company, in the motor vehicle 
yard, 
the cap on an underground gas tank  needed replacing. A guy came out, took a 
torch and cut off the old cap and  welded on a new one. The trick was that he 
first put a hose down the pipe  shaft from his exhaust pipe on his truck, 
filling the void in the tank  with carbon monoxide. With that, no oxygen, no 
danger 
of fire.

Dan  Reitz
Northridge, CA
 
That's all very nice, and pretty clever, but I can still remember working  at 
a large garage that had a radiator repair department.  Whenever we got a  gas 
tank in that needed repair, the serviceman immersed the gas tank in the  
radiator hot boil out tank for several hours, then ran an air hose through it  for 
long enough that we all got tired of listening to it.  You'd expect  that to 
be enough to get any fumes out of the tank, but the service guy had one  more 
trick up his sleeve.  He set the tank into the little room where he  worked, 
and reached around the corner of the door with a torch to see if  anything was 
still coming out of the filler pipe.  You would be surprised  at how many 
times he was rewarded with a resounding "Boom" and a puffed-up fuel  tank.
 
I'm also reminded of the airliner that blew up off the coast of new  York.  
The cause was finally determined to be an electrical short in an  empty jet 
fuel tank.  Jet fuel is less volatile than gasoline.
 
I still don't know how/why our fuel gages work, but I'm sure glad that they  
do!







Joe  Savard
Lake Orion, Michigan



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