----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:29
PM
Subject: Re: Fire extinguishers save
cars!
i had a 265 charger with tripple webbers, a
fuel fitting came loose, and i started to smell petrol....stopped the
car, lifted the bonnet and the whole engine bay was
COVERED in petrol........lucky it never ignited.......
i also had a 73 jaguar, and i saw this
bit of what i THOUGHT was a metal bracket about 10 mm dia, just
protruding below the rear beaver ? panel, ( cant remember what i was
actually doing to it) near one of the rear fuel tanks,
bewdy, if i cut this off it will make it easier for me, wirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
with the angle grinder straight thru the FUEL line, petrol
over the angle grinder, did i drop that quick..... lucky that also
never caught on fire....
mark k
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:41
PM
Subject: Re: Fire extinguishers save
cars!
Same thing happened to my car with the twin
webers. Some fuel soaked into the filter socks and when the car
somehow backfired they went up. Luckily they just melted and the
fire went out. I didn't have an extinguisher on me and it had to be
put out with a rag. Anyway the only damage was melted unifilters all
over the passengers side of the engine bay. From now on I carry an
extinguisher with me everywhere.
Daniel Kroehn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002
11:34 AM
Subject: Fire extinguishers save
cars!
List,
Unfortunately my 1600 suffered an engine bay fire yesterday morning
due to a broken o-ring on one of the injectors. This dumped fuel at
40psi all over the exhaust manifold (wrapped in thermotec wrap) and
started a fire. The first think I noticed was a faint but powerful fuel
smell, which quickly went away. I dismissed this smell as being the car
next door, which looked dodgy and was pouring out smoke from the
exhaust.
I then noticed smoke pouring out the rear of the car in the mirror
and pulled over. By this time there were flames coming out from all
sides of the bonnet. The first thing I did was to lift the bonnet – big
mistake! The flames jumped straight out and burnt my arm and hair.
Shocked by this I let go of the bonnet and it latched shut again. I then
emptied a $16 fire extinguisher aimed from under the front of the car
and this instantly put out the fire. If I did not have this, then the
car would certainly have burnt to the ground.
Moral of the story - always carry a fire extinguisher!
I would like to thank the guy in the extended port rotary 1200 ute
who was the only one to stop and offer assistance. Luckily I have full
comprehensive insurance with Shannon’s.
Thommo.
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