Stupid!

[FlightPlanDan]

We all do something stupid now & then.
I'll share my stupidity with you.

I had to remove my e-box. The bracket studs had become "one" with the aluminum ears of the box.
Had to remove the dash to remove the e-box.(alot of crap on my dash). Including the primer.
I laid the fuel lines aside, above the level of fuel. O.K.
After fighting the issue at hand until dark, I closed it all up.
Got home from work today and smelled fuel as soon as I got out of my truck.
I took the hood off and found the hull had at least 2-3 inches of fuel in the bottom. The heat of the day had built psi.
Glad I did'nt hit any switches!
Pumped it into the storm drain (kidding) a 5-gal bucket with a west marine plastic hand pump, filled it with water and repeated 3x.
By now I figured it was safe to continue using the bilge pump. A few more times and I was good.

It could have been REALLY bad.
Hope this helps sombody else avoid this. All I would have had to do is pull the air check on the tank, or reconnect the primer and lay it on the engine.....Take your time. Don't be stupid!

 

[bigo]

a mate of mine, (not me) had his tank out and forgot to put the rubber filler hose back on.
went down the servo and filled it up..... the hull i mean

 

[butti]

put some dish soap down in the bilge.it will help neutralize the gas

 

[WaHoo_1]

That mutha*&!^@#%$! MONKEY! :aargh4:

 

[#ZERO]

Always plug lose gas lines and crack the gas cap to prevent pressure build up when working with fuel system. :firedevil:

If you have a pressure washer, use it on the stainless studs for the e-box and they come right off.

 

[LBE]

A friend did the same thing about 3 weeks go. Took his primer off to re-turf. Well in the meantime we put in footholds as well. So 3 days later when we were turfing we smelled gas, took the hood off to find about 3 gals in the bottom of the hull.

 

[Glory_Freestyle]

A friend did the same thing about 3 weeks go. Took his primer off to re-turf. Well in the meantime we put in footholds as well. So 3 days later when we were turfing we smelled gas, took the hood off to find about 3 gals in the bottom of the hull.

BAAAAD idea with you around. :biggrin:

 

[FlightPlanDan]

put some dish soap down in the bilge.it will help neutralize the gas

I'll do it!

 

[SuziQ]

BAAAAD idea with you around. :biggrin:

:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

 

[FX-Rex]

I smoked cylider on a break in because I failed to hook the cooling line from the pump.


Pumping gas directly to the hull had me LOL'n