He told me it backfired through the carb. However he has very limited mechanical abilities, so the carb could be a battery would be my guess, or even a fender.
I rebuild carbs, and have mentioned to him more than once to be sure to shut off the gas because of rust and the new type of gas we get. His coments were just like some of those that were replied to on this post. All I could respond back was WHAT EVER... I never would have mentioned it to him, but last night he reminded me how often I had warned him....I never rubbed it in, just reasured him that all would be ok.
In say your case, how far are you from a fire department? Do you have a full time staff in your department? If it is a volenteer department what would be the responce time on a good day? What else could you loose once the tires catch fire? Do you have good fire coverage...or do you THINK maybe you do? How much deductable is on your insurance. Add all those factors up, then go shut the gas off.
And for those who play the game, and brag of it, well then they could probably assume that in Russian Roulete, that there is only one out of six chances also.
By the way, this guy only has home owners insurance with $100,000.00 coverage. He will probably be ok as his and the gas station have the same company. That being said I wonder what could have been the outcome if the whole station was to have burned? It was reported that we had zero water 15 hrs prior to the fire due to a freeze up of a valve. My water spit the evening before, but I had no idea why. Talk about Law suites??? As some may not know that Iowa has a cold season, and Sat morning is one of those mornings that a brass monkey should stay in where it is warm.
My post was not intended to inform the ones who already have the answers, or disagree, but there are some younger ones that could become avoidable victums. Alot of the older croud has had more oil in the motor, and it's real thin. Or a clunking motor noise in a tractor because of a avoidable problem. More is at stake than the paint coming off the carb of a new paint job.
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