Fire Fire 355 close call

so it's my first day at work at the new job and I am driving my new boss to lunch in my 98 355b when my gas light comes on I tell him i need to stop to get gas we drive another mile or so and I start to smell gas but don't think any thing of it I thinking its's another car well we pull into the pizza place and can really smell the gas now I pop the engine deck and see the gas running down from the # 5 fuel injector on across the valve cover and onto the headers my I quickly grabbed a rag and rapped it around the injector to soak up as much gas as I can.I could hear the gas sizzling on the headers there is no question in my mind that if I had keeped driving it would have light up like a bond fire. The reason i am posting this is because I remember someone mentioning on the board how many 355's burn up and questioning what would cause this. well I had the car towed to my house and pulled the intake off I was prepared to find a bad o ring on the injector but it turned out that some how the injector had poped the clip over the bezzel on the rail and the injector had just slid down a little bit and was pissing fuel past the o-ring. I replaced the orings anyway and have no leaks . Has anyone had this happen before I talked to a buddy at Ferrari Atlanta and they said they had never seen it before.

It was an easy fix but scared the **** out of me ( If you smell Fuel Stop )


Later C2turbo

 

You are 100% right there is a clip on each injector the # 5 injector had slipped out of the clip I have Never Ever seen this happen before very strange

later C2turbo