Date:         Sat, 4 Dec 2010 22:13:39 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon engine fire or mishap in Roanoke, Va
Comments: To: mcneely4@cox.net
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At 08:24 PM 12/4/2010, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
>Aren't many Vanagon fires fuel line (or fuel line connector)
>related?  Isn't one connector commonly called "the firestarter)
>because of its propensity to fail and spray fuel around, followed by a fire?

Depends how reliable an answer you want.  Everything you've heard
here about fuel lines, the bulkhead connector etc. is true and
verified -- except the specific connection to specific actual
fires.  Generally speaking when an engine catches fire you're too
busy either fighting it or leaving to worry much about what happened;
and afterwards there's likely not a lot left, nor any fire dept
interested in putting effort into forensics -- the car burnt, they
put out the remains, end of story.

Yours,
d