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NW Washington | Get a fan or blower and blow air in the tank for a while and then fill the tank with CO2 if you are still nervous. Dry ice is frozen CO2, so you drop a few chunks of that in the tank displace any combustible fumes too. Some folk rig up a tube from an exhaust pipe and stick it into the tank to purge it and fill it with non-combustible fumes.
I was in a Ford PU that caught fire and burned once and one gas tank was full and the other about half full and neither one of the tanks blew up, they just fizzled and burned when the fire got to them. We were expecting some fireworks but nothing happened. Same story with the tires.
The myth busters on TV have tried to get a car gas tank with bullets and tracer rounds and nothing worked. Same for pushing off of a cliff.
They finally had to rig up explosives to get the effect you see in the movies. | |
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cutting a hole in a old gas/fuel barrel
