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Posted by Mark - IN. on September 01, 2004 at 17:11:14 from (205.188.117.10):
In Reply to: Carbon Monoxide posted by Mattlt on September 01, 2004 at 08:02:15:
I have a '79 FL that I stroked up to 103", and then back down to 96" because I got tired of the 103"er breakin everytime I took out. I'd just kicked it over and had it puttin out in the closed garage that I was going to open in a second or two, and for the life of me don't know how I heard the phone ring over the drags, but I did. Instead of shuttin down, I ran into the house to say "Hello, I'll call you back", but it didn't work out that way. A few minutes later, I heard it puttin slower and slower and ran out to shut it down so the air-cooled stroker wouldn't seize. The exhaust gagged the crap out of me. It was gaggin the S&S carb too, and it was gonna choke out soon, but had anyone been in there, no doubt they'd have been long dead before it was. Doesn't take a lot of carbon monoxide to kill a person, and certainly not as much as I walked out into.
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