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| Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard [message #129599 is a reply to message #129589] |
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USAussie
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Registered: July 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Jim's,
Already had to inspect the top of the engine will add "under AND inside air
cleaner.
Regards,
Rob M.
USAussie - Downunder
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
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From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org
[mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of James Hupy
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:29 AM
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard
That stuff should go on the fire prevention list too. Burn a coach for sure.
Jim Hupy
Salem, OR
78 GMc Royale 403
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Jim Wagner <slwjmw@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Pulled the air cleaner to clean the filter and found a pile of acorns left
> by a winter visiter. Couldn't see the mess with the air cleaner on. This
> could have caused an unwanted fire. Something to add to my spring list.
> "Check under air cleaner"
> Photo below
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http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=39555&title=gmc-firewa
ll-025&cat=500
>
> Jim Wagner
> Brook Park, oh
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Rob M. (USAussie)
The Pedantic Mechanic
Sydney, Australia
'75 Avion - AUS - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
'75 Avion - USA - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
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| Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard [message #130720 is a reply to message #130713] |
Sat, 18 June 2011 10:15 |
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USAussie
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Jim,
I'm putting together a treatise on GMC Fires and have noted to check for
nests on top of the engine and chewed wires, where were the fuel lines so I
can note that they should be checked.
Regards,
Rob M.
USAussie - Downunder
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
-----Original Message-----
From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org
[mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Jim Bounds
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:42 AM
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard
It probably was not exactly the cause but I have seen 2 coaches burn to the
lug nuts from critters chewing a fuel line, the hulls are evidence that
Murphy's pet has been there. Look around for problems caused by the animal
that left those hulls,
Jim Bounds
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Rob M. (USAussie)
The Pedantic Mechanic
Sydney, Australia
'75 Avion - AUS - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
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| Re: Nuts-Fire hazard [message #130729 is a reply to message #129585] |
Sat, 18 June 2011 11:11 |
idrob
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Location: Central Idaho
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A bit off the subject, but once I had a Mercedes Diesel that I stored outside for a winter. When I went to start it in the spring it ran very poorly. I pressed on the accelerator hard and black nuts started shooting from the exhaust pipe. Hundreds of them, honest. The yard was covered with black sooty nuts put in the exhaust system by the critters.
Once the nuts got blown out, the diesel ran just fine.
Rob Allen
former owner of '76 x-PB
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| Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard [message #130732 is a reply to message #130720] |
Sat, 18 June 2011 11:15 |
Jim Bounds
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The guy was a "hot rodder" and had a rubber hose up to the carb. That's where I
think the problem came from. I think in your report you should list not only to
not have a rubber hose there but as preventive maintenance, replace the original
steel line. Have had it fracture and had the same result. Fracturing of the
metal when bending it so far i think is a problem after this many years.
Jim Bounds
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----- Original Message ----
From: Rob Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Cc: Cooperative Motor Works <coopmotorworks@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat, June 18, 2011 11:15:14 AM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard
Jim,
I'm putting together a treatise on GMC Fires and have noted to check for
nests on top of the engine and chewed wires, where were the fuel lines so I
can note that they should be checked.
Regards,
Rob M.
USAussie - Downunder
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
-----Original Message-----
From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org
[mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Jim Bounds
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:42 AM
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Nuts-Fire hazard
It probably was not exactly the cause but I have seen 2 coaches burn to the
lug nuts from critters chewing a fuel line, the hulls are evidence that
Murphy's pet has been there. Look around for problems caused by the animal
that left those hulls,
Jim Bounds
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| Re: Nuts-Fire hazard [message #130874 is a reply to message #129585] |
Sun, 19 June 2011 12:34 |
Chr$
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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I've got the "Jim's" fuel line. Nice heat shield on that one. My dad was out hunting a few years back and in just one weekend, the critters chewed the plug wires in his Nissan Xterra. He started home without realizing it, truck ran like crap, and it finally gave up the ghost after pulling the long hill on AZ SR 87 between Payson and Phoenix (Now three lanes wide so you can get by the pokies trying to get by the trucks!!!). Long story short, all that unburned gas from running on only half the cylinders choked his catalytic converter and killed it. That was not cheap.
-Chr$: Perpetual SmartAss
Scottsdale, AZ
77 Ex-Kingsley 455 SOLD!
2010 Nomad 24 Ft TT 390W PV W/MPPT, EV4010 and custom cargo door.
Photosite: Chrisc GMC:"It has Begun" TT: "The Other Woman"
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Phew! Title spooked me for a sec. Thought it was some male issue re sitting atop a 455 or a 403 in the summer. 
