Hello James, My car caught fire in a petrol station while I was giving a lift to this girl that I was keen on back to Sydney, as a wire that was passing over a metal retainer finally wore the insulation through. It blew one of the main fusible links, and I (like an idiot) just assumed that the link had worn out. Reconnected it, turned the ignition on, and was greeted with flames. Funny how when you are protecting a car that you have put a lot of money into that burns from patting out flaming wires with your hands no longer seems all that bad. I havent heard from that girl since :)
Thursday, March 21, 2002, 1:43:28 PM, you wrote: JF> Not much fun is it.... JF> happened to me many years ago.. while sitting at the traffic lights JF> in my Nan's immaculate 180B when I noticed the paint bubbling up JF> on the bonnet - no smoke at first, just nan's beautiful metallic silver JF> paint blistering before my eyes!! JF> So I jumped out at the lights with traffic banked up behind me and JF> I too opened to bonnet to have the flames jump up and almost burn JF> me... I had no extinguisher.. so before I could think better of what I JF> was doing I ripped the windscreen washer bottle from it's mounts in JF> the flaming engine bay and doused the fire with the water from that... JF> By the time I got it out someone had come over with an extinguisher JF> from their car... JF> The moral of the story - get an extinguisher (and keep your windscreen JF> washer bottle full, just in case :) JF> cya JF> James JF> David Thompson wrote: >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here >> >> --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- >> OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- >> Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> No unauthorised redistribution of this email >> http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm >> http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- JF> -- JF> ________________________________________________________________________ JF> James Fitness JF> Director JF> Data Scribe Australia Pty Ltd JF> http://www.datascribe.com.au JF> Computers and Supplies JF> OZDAT Online JF> http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm -- Best regards, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
