Near miss!

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Holy crap!!  Glad to hear you caught it in time!


-George
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:00 AM
Subject: Near miss!


> Well, we know how these cars have sympathy pains and can get jealous. Just
> put too much effort into one of your VAG cars and the other ones decide
> you're ignoring them and bust a part just to get your attention.
> It turns out they can hear too.
> I guess my 84 must have heard me talking about cutting him up. Didn't know
I
> was just talking about his crossmember. So he decided he'd rather die a
> fiery death than have me chop him limb from limb.
> Sneaky little bastard rubbed a big-assed hole in one of the rubber fuel
> lines I had added from the filter to the fuel rail. I had just put the car
> on ramps to fix a small bracket I had made and the underside was soaked in
> fuel. When I raised the hood fuel poured out of the hood reinforcements
into
> the rain tray!
> I have an extinguisher, but it still would have been a hell of a mess with
> the amount of fuel all over the place.
> Sheesh!
> Damn lucky it all happened in the driveway and not in rush hour traffic
(or
> for that matter on the road to Cincy!)
>
> All you guys with electronic injection or people that have swapped out
> sections of steel line for rubber; check your rubber lines often for
> abrasion!!!
>
> I'm starting to think we should develop a list of things to check
> periodically to make sure our cars are safe and sound.
>
> Dan
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