"jim beam" <retard-trap@bad.example.net> wrote in message
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> Michael Pardee wrote:
>> "jim beam" <retard-trap@bad.example.net> wrote in message
>> news:d-2dnartW4RyUjvUnZ2dnUVZ_oHinZ2d@speakeasy.net...
>>> when a car starts, you have to dump gas because the motor is not warm,
>>> thus the fuel doesn't fully vaporize, thus you need excess gas to get
>>> sufficient vapor density to burn. if you dump gas, then turn the motor
>>> off? where is the gas now? in the inlet, and /not/ being sucked into
>>> the motor. so where does it go? it evaporates back out of the air
>>> intake. thus you smell gas!!!
>>>
>>> so that's all the o.p. is experiencing - a few seconds of excess gas
>>> because he hasn't warmed the motor. utterly trivial.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe so, but it still does not rule out a gasoline leak. The risk is too
>> great to just shrug it off.
>>
>> Mike
>
> well, the neighbor kid could have been stealing gas too and spilled some.
> or theoretically, the vehicle /could/ have been drilled by one of these:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_...ssive_particle
>
> that actually /did/ interact precisely at an injector o-ring, and is
> subsequently just a bomb waiting to explode.
>
> but somehow i doubt it. just like i doubt fuel leak on a sub-year old car
> made by a manufacturer with an excellent track record on this stuff.
> especially when we're told that the car has been run for less than 60
> seconds and that we know about excess mixture on start-up, etc...
>
> seriously dude, look at the big picture and assign probabilities.

Seriously dude, look at the big picture and assign probabilities, then look
again and assign possibilities to check when the probabilities aren't the
cause.....

DaveD