{"id":52994,"date":"2017-09-13T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=52994"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:31:31","slug":"will-gasoline-explode-98-mercury-sable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/09\/will-gasoline-explode-98-mercury-sable","title":{"rendered":"Will gasoline explode 98 Mercury Sable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1996-mercury-sable.jpg\" alt=\"Mercury Sable\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1996-mercury-sable.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1996-mercury-sable-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am replacing the fuel pump on my sable and wanted to install a maintenance hatch under the back seat. On examination, I noticed fuel lines running in that area, if I accidentally nicked one of those with the grinder is that likely to explode, I am working outside.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Will gasoline explode<\/h3>\n<p>No. Gasoline liquid will not explode, however gasoline fumes will. And if there is fuel pressure in the lines the fuel will spray all over and will catch fire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>gasoline combined with air will explode, gasoline won&#8217;t burn without air the fumes mixed with air will explode but the gasoline will burn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: WikiAnswers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1998-mercury-sable-fuel-lines.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am replacing the fuel pump on my sable and wanted to install a maintenance hatch under the back seat. On examination, I noticed fuel lines running in that area, if I accidentally nicked one of those with the grinder is that likely to explode, I am working outside. Will gasoline explode No. Gasoline liquid&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/09\/will-gasoline-explode-98-mercury-sable\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will gasoline explode 98 Mercury Sable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[9365,19808],"class_list":["post-52994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-mercury","tag-sable","tag-will-gasoline-explode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}