bobbitt

As I'm waiting for the headpipe that connects to the thermal reactor in my stock '79, I dick around with small ****, like changing plugs, oil, bleeding brakes, and whatnot. I thought my battery was dead, but when I looked on the dash, the clock was running so I thought"hmm..". I turned the key to acc. and I then notice that my headlights flipped up, and my radio worked...all be it low. Anyway, as i sat there, I decided to turn the key over. Well, click, everything went dead. OK, no biggie, the battery is dead, I kinda knew that. What confuses me, is I get out of the car, and I smell gas. First thing I did was look under the gas tank, and fuel line...obviously. What I saw, though, was gas spewing out of the pipe that connects under the T.R., one that screws onto a piece of the heat exchanger..(what I believe to be the heat exchanger...for some reason, I'm missing the first half of my Haynes manual). That didn't make a whole lot of sense to me...any ideas?

jeremy

iTrader: (1)

you lost me. the thermal reactor is bolted to the engine and no fuel lines are anywhere near it. i don't remember anything under the thermal reactor either.

NanaimoRx-7

I think I rememeber the line you're talking about, it comes from the heat exchanger forward and connects to the T.R. Looking at the diagram in the Hayes manual, air coming from the air pump goes one of 2 ways depending on engine condition. One way through the ACV and it's injecting air into the TR, the other way it travels back to the heat exchanger, then forward and connects under the TR for the air injection nozzles. Umm, it the car was flooded it could be draining out the nozzles ???? If you're sure it's gas then the only way to get there is through the engine.... how much gas are we talking about. I'm sure someone with more smarts will come along soon

bobbitt

OK, my bad. This pipe is not connected to the TR, altho it is located directly beneath and very close to it. It comes off the engine, plugs into the headpipe, which in turn connects to the TR. It was a about a pint or less of gas that spewed. That would happen if it were flooded and I turned the key? The engine didn't even turn over, it just clicked once, and went completely dead. I just thought it was a strange thing to happen, but that's a normal thing, huh.