Re: Fuel Leak problem

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:36 AM 9/18/2000 -0500, Lex Offer wrote:
>I was wondering if those of you who have had fuel leaks, How many of you
>had the opportunity to examine the gas tank?  One person recently mention a
>depression under the fill hole.  I was thinking, unless there is a
>heatshield between the engine and the gas tank, could it be possible that
>the engine is melting holes in your tanks.  Am wondering if maybe an
>aluminum heatshield would be helpful here if the problem is engine heat is
>the culprit....just look at all those melted bellypans, that little 3
>cylinder engine does put out some serious heat.

The belly pan melting is from header heat, quite another
thing than engine block/head heat.  Also, the fuel tank
is liquid cooled by the fuel.  Every try to solder a
copper water line with water in it?  Can't get it hot
for nothing, the water conducts all the heat away.


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