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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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