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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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