Gas smell after very short run?

There is a difference between the smell of RAW gasoline and partly
burned exhaust fumes that go through a cold converter that doesn't
clean them up. I think the OP was smelling the latter.

I think some of you have been on a wild goose chase for quite awhile.

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That's a possibility. We have been going on a rather subjective observation
that it was a strong gasoline smell, but if it was just the cold engine
exhaust he was smelling you are spot on.

Mike

 

it's in the book cite i gave you!!! if you don't see or understand
that, it's not my fault!

no, i ridicule the "interpreted" version you give - the one you filtered
through your lack of understanding.

wow. utter lack of comprehension!

whatever you say. don't bother with an engineering career though mike -
you're out of your depth.

 

what a weak-ass climb-down!

 

Too late - I was a senior communications field engineer for a Fortune 100
company from about 1990 to about 2005. Now a senior IS field tech for the
same company; more challenging, more troubleshooting, pays better, get
stranded in some of the most beautiful places in Northern Arizona. Among
other duties, I determine where microwave system troubles originate and go
there with what I expect to need to correct the problem - which can include
damage from lightning strikes - and I have to make it happen better than 9
times out of 10. I describe the job as "taking Computer Age skills to the
end of Bronze Age roads in any weather at any time of day or night." I have
been a troubleshooter professionally since August 10, 1970, after I got my
FCC First Class Radiotelephone license at age 17, and as an amateur since I
was 14 years old. I have done essentially all the maintenance on the cars in
my family since moving to Arizona in 1974, taking most of them beyond the 20
year mark. (BTW, I have never in my life had a grade lower than an A on any
physics test.) Your qualifications?

 

Do you have something intelligent to say? Write like a man or go away.

 

something intelligent like "if tomorrow the OP reports a fire that
destroys his Fit and possibly his home"? that kind of a man?

 

dude, i have the first class comms licence books on my desk right now.
passing that stuff at 14 is not exactly a landmark of academic achievement.

i'll stop there.

 

At 17. You talk a big game but never take the field. Since 2/3 of applicants
failed the test the first time around it isn't as trivial as you make it out
to be. Actually, element 3 (not element 4) was the one that got most people.
Several questions in the real test had more than one right answer: In a
transmitting tetrode, when the plate is tuned to resonance the (A) plate
current rises (B) screen current rises (C) cathode current drops (D) grid
current drops. I remember it because it was the most esoteric question on
the test, and my favorite. The answer was (C); although B was also correct
it is not used as an indication of resonance because it can be the result of
other operating conditions. (A is simply wrong, D is an indication of
improper neutralization.) But I'm sure you would have breezed through, what
with your superior abilities and all.

BTW - if the book still refers to first and second class licenses you should
retire it, even if it is the classic study guide "Electronic Communication"
by my friend in the San Leandro Amateur Radio Club, Robert Shrader. The
"class" licenses were replaced by General Radiotelephone licenses around
1985, when only the international classes of stations were retained as
requiring them. The bottom line is: before I was old enough to buy tobacco,
but smart enough not to, I was licensed to be employed as chief engineer at
any radio or television broadcast station or any other transmitting site in
the US.

So, again, what are your qualifications? What are you hiding?

 

/WOW/!!!! oh, wait, i'm not impressed.

you're a service tech. whoopee.

wouldn't you like to know!

 

No - you are still thinking like a teenage girl. This is not about your
petty personal hangups, it is about automobiles.

If you read almost any other contributor's posts you will get the idea. Your
perspective is grossly abnormal - most guys stop thinking like that in their
mid teens - and your obsession with personal issues is just plain creepy.
Like I said, write like a man or go away.

 

That says it all. You have no qualifications whatsoever. We suspected as
much but at least we heard it from you. That explains why you refused (were
unable?) to stay on topic and squirmed whenever the topic became in the
least technical. It also explains why the big bluff of having "physics" but
never delivering.

 

so being a girl is supposed to be a bad and demeaning thing? what a
cocksucker!

wow, not only are you a drama queen, you're demeaning, sexist /and/
delusional!

a "man" like you??? what a fucking idiot.

 

wow, look at the idiot trying to start a fight he won't win! do you
want to lose a penis measuring contest as well?

 

That is the most bizarre and meaningless thing you have written here yet,
and that is really saying something. I don't know exactly what your problem
is - the source of your intellectual and social dysfunctions - but I hope it
is something you can straighten out. If it is a substance problem you can
kick it; the real world is nowhere near as ugly as the one you are showing
us. If you are suffering from bipolar disorder a doctor may be able to help.
All I am sure of is that you are currently one seriously messed up
individual.

 

Apparently you can't. Go away.

 

Surely you've noticed by now that he is incapable of letting anybody else
get the last word on anything. Just kill-file the old fart and let it go.

 

ROLLING ON THE FLOOR!!
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

WOW!!! That was the most entertaining example of Net Kookery I've
witnessed in some time. With Vulcan logic like that, who needs an
opponent?!

Understatement. Of. The. Year.

The score is 108-0 .... at the end of the first quarter. Maybe it's
time to dust off the "Mercy Rule" Michael. The continuing
slaughter, while entertaining, is so one sided as to be cruel.

Roids, maybe?
He reminds me of a certain punk-assed 17 year old football jock I had
the misfortune of sharing a class with. A legend in his own mind,
suffering chronic testosterone poisoning, who had taken one too many
shots to the head.

Still LAMO! Thanks Jim!

 

Roids are something I don't know anything about. I have known alcoholics in
my family when I was a kid, and have recent experience with a cocaine addict
of 30 years' standing, and a meth freak who has let up in recent years (both
in my in-laws extended family). The effect of cocaine is the one that I find
easiest to recognize when it gets bad - nothing else I've seen produces the
lurid and grandiose language with self-adulation. I think that is why I've
emt recovering alcoholids and recovering speed freaks but no recovering coke
heads - they think they are walking down a red carpet with flashbulbs going
off around them while in reality the people around them are wondering when
they last brushed their teeth - if ever. Alcoholics tend to know they are
screwed up but try not to acknowledge it.

I still don't know for sure "jim's" problem isn't medical - either mental
retardation from childhood or bipolar disorder from the typical adolescent /
early adulthood time frame. If it is bipolar, it isn't as bad as most I've
had occasional contact with. Either way, I don't condemn people who were
dealt a bad hand in terms of their health, but nobody needs to be such a
jerk. The oddest thing was his use of "drama queen" - I have only heard the
term used by shrewish women, flamboyant gay men ( the "Bitch!" crowd) and
coke addicts. Men who can face the world just never think such a thing...
it's too weird. If he is one of the first two groups (we don't know the true
sex or sexual orientation of anybody online) it explains but does not
forgive the insult, but in light of his inability to understand simple
definitions or simple technical writing I suspect something is taking over
his life.

Mike

 

So, in a nutshell, you're saying that "jim" is a gay cokehead, probably
bipolar, possibly retarded, and stupid?

I'd have to agree.

 

Thus spake :

To settle this, yeah, it's just a matter of it running too fat for
just a moment. My guy at Howdy said that it usually happens when the
temperatures drop rapidly, like it did that day. From the upper 70s
at 2 pm to the mid 40s by 8pm.

"Strong smell" was too much of an overstatement.


Oh yeah, I have not seen any liquid on the driveway or in the garage
that could be attributable to anything except A/C discharge. So, I
guess my garage might flood, but it won't burn down.
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