Date:         Fri, 21 Apr 2000 14:21:41 +0200
Reply-To:     Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
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From:         Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: gasoline!!! :)
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Joel Walker wrote:

> well, someone asked me whether or not to leave the air space at the
> top of a container full of gasoline ... that is, is it better to fill
> it completely up (leaving NO air space at all) or to leave a few
> inches of air. i'd always been taught (and found it true from
> experience) that you always left inches of air for expansion ... that
> liquid gasoline expands a LOT when it is warmed up.

It does expand when hot. I learned that the hard way, after I filled the
tank on the Syncro once. The fuel was cold, after sitting in the tanks in
the ground under the station (it was spring, last year), and I filled the
tanks extremely full like always, the level was up in the neck. When I
got home, the fuel was sligthly heated by the engine, and was spilling
all over the rear fender.

>anyway, you get the idea: gasoline is powerful stuff, and can be VERY
>dangerous if not handled properly. like a lot of other stuff in our
>modern lives, we tend to take it for granted (like 4000 lb machines
>that travel at 88 feet per second!).  so be careful out there. ;)

You know, if the gasoline powered motor vehicle was invented and
introduced today, in the form and function it has developed to, it would
never been legal to own and operate such death machines. In this world's
safety minds, it would be illegal to drive around in something that kills
this much, literally fire bombs with all this explosive fuel, not to talk
about how it damages the environment.

PerL
87 Syncro 112i