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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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