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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 7:10
PM
Subject: engine go bang bang
just a quick question not datto related but
it's a nissan so I thought someone may know
my mate has an 1999 N15 Pulsar and has asked
me to go to his place tomorrow afternoon and take a look at it for
him.
just thought I'd check with the people in
the know and see if they have any ideas as to what I should be searching
for.
I only ask because the description he gave
me on the phone sounds like 4 problems all in one all happened at the same
time so I thought I'd get some opinions
This is the way he explained it to
me.......
"I was driving down the
freeway at around 95-100 km/h when I heard a fairly loud BANG. At the
same time every light in the dashboard came on and went off then the engine
just cut out. I rolled over to the side of the freeway and got out and
popped the bonnet, only to discover my engine was a raging inferno.
Someone driving past pulled over and had a fire extinguisher in their car
and helped me put it out. I got the car towed home. I can crank
it over but there is a very loud clunking noise."
It's got me confused, the dash board sounds
like a wiring problem. At first I thought the bang and the fire were
related, but once he told me about the clunking noise I figure the bang was
something letting go internally. The clunking he described definately sounds
bottom end, perhaps whatever it was that made the bang has found it's way
into the crankcase? Then there's the fire, my guess a fuel leak
somewhere, possibly ignited by a short which would have also explained the
dash, well at least I'd like to think it's that, because if it was simply
ignited by the engine heat then that again leaves me pondering the dash
lights. Now I'm left trying to work out why the hell this all happened
at once.
Any thoughts would be greatly
appretiated.
Thanks guys'n'gals
Dave
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