yeah, thats for sure

 

I dumped 48 gals into my Ex 2 days ago. I don't cry. It is the nature of the beast. however, you could just dump 2 gals every day and fill it up if it is that bad.

 

Best post right there. That's all the reasoning you need... in other words, NONE! You do it because you choose to and don't need to justify it to some moron. I like it.

and the saving the wrists for surfing on the internet... LMAO!!


That's a good story... loved your response. Too bad you didn't smoke him on the way out.

 

should have called the police.....that guy had no right to have a look at your license...what was he planning to do with the info?

A guy with a badge is nobody unless he is acting in his juristiction in a matter of public interest...not his own. There are severe penalties for jerko*fs who "flash the badge"...for their own ego.

 

let it get below a quater tank... and from experience you will run out of fuel! lol then you gotta get on hill some how and blead the lines and such lol

 

That is with a stock system. If I ever run out, it is because I am out, and that is that.

 

You are correct. I don't pay any attention to a guy with a badge. I have one, but I am not a cop, but I have a license to do a certain job in my state which requires it (badge). I don't flash it to anyone but a cop.

That is just like the unmarked cars. If I don't recognize the car, I don't stop. I will call 911 or the State Police immediately and report it and ask if my plate has just been run or who it is trying to stop me. Most cops will automatically call in a plate if the vehicle does not stop immediately. If I am not satisfied with the 911 or State Police answer, I will tell them to what I am planning on doing and then I will go to an area crowded with people. Most cops understand this, especially if you acknowledge that they are there, by sticking your hand out the window and waving.

That is why I just got in and drove off. He can run the license plate all day if he wants. It will just come back blank. Due to my job, I have my plate restricted. If you do not know the pass code, DMV will not supply the information. You have to go to DMV, sign a document with a need to know box and if they feel that you need to know, they will give it to you. Most of the time they won't. They will give it to a trooper, sheriff or city cop, but they have to appear in person. It has really ticked off a few deputies and troopers when all they get is the last six numbers of the serial number back, but no other information.

I have my AIS II air box and Bully Dog exhaust on. I am planning on doing the EGT and Boost sensor this wekend. I do wish that I had Jody's Chip on this one. That is my next mod. I would have filled that Benz up with smoke and fumes.

 

I just visited the local filling station here in Fairbanks to fill up on my beer and ice suppy. In the parking lot was a 18 wheeler with double tanks filling up the underground tanks with gasoline. He probably had 100,000 gals on board. The fumes were very prevelant. Do you think maybe his diesel engine was idling? Let me tell you, the fumes were bad enough to cause me to put my cigarette out. While I stated earlier that you can snuff a cigarette in a can of gas, larger volumes of fumes and a glowing cigarette ember are two very different things.

 

Liquid gas will put a cigarette out, however, the fumes will explode. Try it with a small coke bottle.

 

Yep, I remember my 8th grade science teacher at Empire (for those of you in Oklahoma and near the Skelly oilfields), and how he performed a demonstration for us with and lit stick and a beaker of oil, diesel and finally gasoline. While we gathered around the lab table he first demonstrated how easily each fuel could be lit on fire...oil, diesel and finally gasoline.

Then he demonstrated how the flame on each stick could be extinguished in the fuel...first the oil, then the diesel...and then the beaker (wanted to run for cover) of gasoline. Even sitting here today, I'm kind of amazed that several of us did wind up with faces covered with glass shards.

I'm pretty sure in this day and age insurance companies would never allow such a demonstration...or some soccer mom or dad (same thing) would threaten the school with an endangerment lawsuit...then again back in my day you had to wear clothes that covered your a$$ and every principal had a notched paddle with holes, in his desk.

Exploding consumers fueling their autos...has been proven to be a primary result of the person starting to fuel, then climbing back into vehicle, then back our creating static electricity that is discharged when they touch the fuel nozzle...kaboom!!

I have a close friend who was standing in a couple inches of water during a storm in Dripping Springs Texas, refueling his Stroke with hand on nozzle...lightning struck the overhead structure, burnt up cell phone in shirt pocket, burnt hand on nozzle, exited out thru one of his feet leaving about a 2" wound on the bottom of his foot. Say's it scared the crap out of him as he was sure the pump was gonna blow and he went running into the store as the young clerk went running out the back door as she thought the entire place was gonna blow...which it didn't...and as far as I know, most of us would have a hard time generating a spark with as much energy as that from a proximity lightning hit.

BTW, if you haven't done this yet...and have a CRT monitor. Call someone on your cell phone, maybe be touching the antenna...then reach up and touch the screen on your monitor. From my experiences, a little more of jolt than licking a 9v battery!

 

Been a Firefighter since 1985. NEVER seen a fire started by a car running while fueling, NEVER seen an explosion caused by cell phone use while fueling. Or heard of any.

Its all a BS myth created by media hype and "friend-of-a-friend" stories that take on a life of their own. But now the BS is on official looking placards stuck to the pump.

Ignore.

let 'em run.

 

I have a good friend who builds fuel stations for a living. 90% of what he does is check check and recheck all of the plumbing-type safeguards they build for each station. The systems they build are meant to keep contaminants out, and the pressure systems that pump the fuel make it nearly impossible to make this fuel explosive. The tanks they put both gasoline and diesel fuel in are mammoth, and airtight. Like some of you have said, it's the fumes of gasoline particularly that is flammable, not the liquid forms of fuel. According to him, it would be nearly impossible to start a fire at a fuel station, and definitely not by leaving your motor running while doing it. I know a few people who still leave their engines running with their gasoline eaters.

With the stations that have exploded (like the videos you see on Worlds Wildest Videos or some crap like that) there was usually a large explosion caused by something else, an explosion that super heated a large amount of fuel to a temperature that was high enough to actually make it explosive. A few years back we had a station go up in flames here in Colorado, but it was because some idiot running from the cops crashed into a fuel station. When he wrecked, he caught the car on fire and caught the pump on fire. The underground fuel tanks never caught.

 

I just have 2 questions for you mr. "No risk of explosion." Whats your average running temp. for a deisel? Probably pretty up there, 200F, 250F? and there's this fancy little physics thing called proximity ignition where if the temp. Is high enough an item may ignite without coming into contact with a flame. 2. Is there an explosion happening inside that engine? Answer to that is yes, so there is very much a risk of explosion when dealing with FLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES.

 

Holy Moly smokin explodin diesel trucks you registered just to scold someone that posted 13 years ago?????????

 

How about "in the very unlikely event"... As a previous post said, had diesel spewing on manifold, exhaust etc for 150 miles or so. Luckily no explosion, smelled like **** though.