Posted by ss55 on December 01, 2014 at 21:32:52 from (173.28.18.88):
In Reply to: Re: IH656 Fire posted by LaurenceA on December 01, 2014 at 20:08:08:
Think about it for a bit... Gasoline vaporizes easily, the lighter parts of gasoline do evaporate at room temperature in unsealed tanks. Once you had open flames touching the bottom and sides of your gas tank, it wouldn't take much time for the thin layer of gas in contact with the hot metal tank walls to start bubbling and boiling even if most of the gas in the center of the tank was still cool. Escaping bubbles of fuel all flowing out the small filler hole would also splash out liquid fuel, much like a coffee percolator or a tea pot in a rolling boil.
After the tractor is fixed, I wouldn't drive it without a factory gas cap.
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