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1st Gen. Ram - All TopicsDiscussion for all Dodge Rams prior to 1994. This includes engine, drivetrain and non-drivetrain discussions. Anything prior to 1994 should go in here.
Is it normal for that gasket to be a PIA to scrape off? It sure was for me when I swapped my lift pump. No idea how long it had been on there.
I guess I'll find out soon. I have another lift pump swap in my near future after finding a crudded up fuel filter due to a torn fuel strainer.
-Niemand
Where did you find the new strainer? I just got mine apart and it looks the same as your old one.
I use a small cheap fram G2 inline filter on my supply line from the tank to the lift pump to catch anything that might have got into the fuel. Change it every 3-6 months depending on my fuel pressure.
To be clear, they are not "oxygen" respirators, they are "air" respirators. Supplemental oxygen is used in emergency and other medical situations to supplement the 20% (roughly) oxygen that is available in the air. Scuba divers don't use oxygen in their tanks because it would kill them by oxygen toxicity:
If those guys did say oxygen, then even they don't understand the difference. That said, you are completely right, once one screws up their lungs, which can happen with 1 breath of certain things, they generally have a crumby life thereafter...Mark
I stand corrected. I meant air ( nitrogen, oxygen, cat litter fumes from NJ air)
Sorry, I smoked too much crack yesterday, and my mind wandered
The paint masks I was referring to are Dust and VOC filters. They filter out particulates and Volatile Organic Compounds in a charcoal filter much like the gas masks we had in the army. The only time you need oxygen is when you're in an environment where the oxygen is displaced such as Halon fire suppressor. In the computer field I had training on Halon because it was used in server rooms. I haven't seen the MSDS on the Airplane Stripper but I suspect it's mostly VOC's that are dangerous.
Halon was banned in 1994, although, who knows what has been un-banned in the past few years. If oxygen is depleted, then it needs to be supplemented. One of the first hazmat calls that I went on was an incident at Garrett air research near the airport in Phoenix. The really smart people there,mostly engineers had just inerted the atmosphere of a room with argon gas. For us dummies, it means displacing the oxygen with an inert gas. Weeeeell, they then proceeded to enter the room and encountered what we call "one breath knockdown". When we got there, we encountered a number (don't remember how many) of people unconscious and stacked on top of each other very near the door. What saved them all was they were near 5 or 6 fire stations and we got there very quickly and got them out, nobody died. An interesting thing is that argon is not poisonous or toxic, it just drives out the oxygen. Most of these people were engineers and most of them entered to save the others that entered before them. Bonus question, does oxygen burn? ...Mark P.S. The turbo in my Mercedes 300 SDL was designed and built at that same facility, about 4 miles from my house...
Oxygen is very reactive. It combines exothermicaly with many substances such as carbon, hydrogen every hydrocarbon and every carbohydrate. Florine is very reactive also. If you had an atmosphere of hydrogen, yes, a stream of oxygen would burn in it.
If Halon was banned in 1984 then why did the bank I worked for in St Petersburg, FL still have in their computer room?
Hi Edwin, Oxygen is necessary for burning to occur, but does not itself burn, at least not here on earth. Almost all things will oxidize in the right conditions, with steel we call it rust. It is the same exothermic process as fire, but happens real slow. Fire is defined as the extremely rapid, uncontrolled oxidation of a fuel material which produces heat, light and flame.The more stoiciometricaly balanced that it is, the less smoke is produced. Smoke is a sign of inefficient combustion. Halon was banned in 1994 in the USA...Mark
But, in 1989, when the Montreal Protocol determined that halon depleted the ozone layer, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency subsequently banned its manufacture in 1994, the search was on for halon replacement options. ... Since halon manufacturing was banned, a hunt has been on for something that works as well. From google...
This weekend I replaced the external regulator hoping it would solve the spotty charging and overcharging of the battery. It didn't work so while waiting for the internally mounted regulator I replaced the battery cables which were beat to hell. After a few minutes the charging leveled out, the amp gauge hovered around 14-15. I'm very happy with this.
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