Bre'r Mark Hofmann wrote about RE:Re: Transmission Flush to Bre'r Roy
Witt:


 RW>> It's more fun when the flex-lines crack and spring a leak when you
 RW>> need the brakes the most...been there, done that @ 100mph.

 MH> Yes, nothing like a brake line failure to get your heart racing and
 MH> adrenaline pumping.  Quick thinking had me use the emergency brake
 MH> when it happened on my old Malibu.

 MH> It is one thing to have a failure do to rust on your power steering,
 MH> but it is another when it is the brake line - or gas line.

Gas line leaks are too dangerous for my blood. A friend of mine had a 61
Chevy pickup that he gave to a shop in east county San Diego for
refurbishing and updating. They put a 454 w/700R4 from his 74 GMC pickkup
in it, chopped the front suspension off of it and installed the GMC, frame
to frame patched. They also took the rear end out from under his 75
Chevelle and put that under the 61, with Monte Carlo springs. 61s have
this 'wish-bone' suspension that really sucks (althought NASCAR uses a
stroner version of it as their 'required' suspension on race cars). He
finally got tired of waiting weeks and weeks for that shop to finish his
truck and so had it piggy-backed to a friends shop for completion.

He filled the gas tank with 5 gallons of gasoline, anticipating a long
idle time while things were adjusted. Well, the shop had put in a new gas
line feeding it through the frame, etc...what they didn't tell him was
that they cut it in half and fed it from both ends and never tightened
that connection. I can still hear him cussing those guys out as he lay on
the floor attempting to tighten that fitting, with 5 gallons of gas
under him.

If his temper was as hot as a match or spark, that gas would have ignited.


         R\%/itt


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