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Re: I Know this has been beat to death but...
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Posted by Denny Frisk on July 20, 2001 at 09:56:39 from (12.4.181.2):
In Reply to: I Know this has been beat to death but... posted by Faarmall43 on July 19, 2001 at 22:55:31:
In about 1979 or 1980 IH was the defendent in a trial where a farmer was chopping hay or something in the summer, and pulled up to his gas barrel with if I remember right was a 756 gas. tractor, which the gas tank extended up over the back half of the engine. The tractor operator, while smoking a cigarette jumped up on the hood, grabbed the gas barrel nozzel, pulled the triple baffle (tall profile) cap off that had a plugged vent of the gas tank. The pressure had built up inside the tank so high that when the cap was removed, and the pressure was relieved, that raw gas came spurting up out of the tank. The person was severly burned. Part of the settlement was the gas cap recall campaigne which required a serial number, and the old cap to be turned in at the IH dealer. ALL engine driven equip. was involved, as long as it had the old style cap. The NEW safty cap had a second pair of prongs that kept the cap from being able to be lifted off the top of the tank so fast so pressure could be relieved. In fact, the second set of prongs wouldn't even let the cap FIT on my Super H. To be quite honest, I think it's amazing that C/IH even honors a 20 yr. old court settlement against another company. My information comes from a former co-worker at FARMALL that actually testified at the trial.
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