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Subject:Re: Aluminum Fuel Rails (aftermarket)
From:Pat Dooley
Date:Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:42:55 -0500

you would most likely have to base your opinion on the near misses, ie the ones that sprayed fuel everywhere but miraculously didn't burn.

Jun 21, 2011 01:50:08 AM, oxroad@GMAIL.COM wrote:

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On that note Chris--

I would ask; Looking at a smoldering smoking carcass of a Vanagon gutted by
fire with every rubber and plastic part formerly in the engine compartment
now melted into a bubbling puddle of guck under the Vanagon, how would one
know if it was the fuel line, fuel connection through the firewall, or fuel
rail that failed to become the cause of the fuel leak that started the fire?

I'm just saying. ;)

Best,
Jeff
83.5 Westy
LA, CA

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Chris S  wrote:

> I do not recall the plastic fuel rails as a common source of spontaneous
> combustion. Fuel lines, yes.
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