Almost Blowed up!

[Provocyclist]

Yeah, so yesterday, my car wouldnt get out of the driveway. Start it, idle, die. Repeat. So i open the engine hatch, and I see gas dripping from a few places. 8O "Oh fuh" i say, and then notice the MAF plug isnt in either. Needless to say, i now have all new fuel line. Lesson learned!

Clark

[miamiDaveGLi]

8O 8O YIKES glad it dident turn into an explosive situatuion man !!

[burn_your_money]

That could hav turned out alot worse 8O

[Provocyclist]

Oh yeah, it could have been bad. Plus, when i took off the fuel pressure regulator, i tapped it and some big ol rust chunks came out! WheeeEE!

[Gotturbo]

And a provo man was killed today when his VW Van blew up cause of faulty fuel lines... Wow that could have been said on the news!!!!

[speedbump]

Wow! That was close.

Leaky fuel lines are a somewhat commom problem on Vanagons. When I belonges to the Vanagon list serve, several times a year I'd read about fires caused by leaking gas in the engine compartment. The bottom of the gas tank rusting out is also somewhat common.

Several years ago, I had a fire in my Westy. A mouse nest on the fan speed resistors in the roof mounted A/C. To get the fire out, I had to unbolt and remove the A/C unit while it was burning, and while my wife was spraying a fire extinguisher in to the A/C...... That stuff taste nasty.

The steel coolant hoses going to the radiator are also prone to leaking, same with the line going to the clutch release cylinder on manual trannies. Just a few other things to check out.

[Mr_Diesel]

I had to unbolt and remove the A/C unit while it was burning


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! :lol: :lol: :D :D :D :D :D

[Provocyclist]

Ewww. torched mouse smell!!!

[speedbump]

I had to unbolt and remove the A/C unit while it was burning


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! :lol: :lol: :D :D :D :D :D

I tried just ripping it out, but it's housing is made of 3/4" plywood and steel brackets bolt it to the bottom of the upper bed which is also 3/4" plywood. Their was no ripping it out. In hindsight, I should have just let it burn and collect the insurance money. :lol: As it was, I got $1700 for clean up and A/C replacement. 8)

Trust me, you couldn't smell the burning mouse over the burning plastic and fire extinguisher ( we used 3 of them). If I had a place to host them (and can find them) I could post some picts.

[burn_your_money]

mmmm insurance money


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[Mr_Diesel]

I had to unbolt and remove the A/C unit while it was burning


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! :lol: :lol: :D :D :D :D :D

I tried just ripping it out, but it's housing is made of 3/4" plywood and steel brackets bolt it to the bottom of the upper bed which is also 3/4" plywood. Their was no ripping it out. In hindsight, I should have just let it burn and collect the insurance money. :lol: As it was, I got $1700 for clean up and A/C replacement. 8)

Trust me, you couldn't smell the burning mouse over the burning plastic and fire extinguisher ( we used 3 of them). If I had a place to host them (and can find them) I could post some picts.

hahahahaha, that's awesome... We had a squirrel make its nest inside the exhaust manifold of me and my dad's 79 thunderbird 460... It was storing nuts and seeds in the exhaust manifold, and it would crawl all the way up in the exhaust pipe.... Needless to say, the squirrel was in the manifold when we tried to start it.... LOL, I'll leave the rest to your imagination. The seeds and nuts got shot out of the exhaust pipe sandblasting everything in it's path... It was rather funny actually.

[speedbump]

:lol: Talk about "blow'n a nut". :lol:

My bosses brother-in-law stores large Vameer chippers behind where I work and often demos them to possable buyers and birds like to bulid nests in them, you can guess what happens to the birds.

I see alot of mouse nests in garden tractors and I often find baked mice under the blower housings. One time we replaced a coil on a mower, because a mouse chewed the wire off. The cusomer got it home and the first time he went to use it (the next day), it ran for sever feet and quit, we took the blower housing off and their was a dead mouse with it's teeth clamped on the new coil wire. :lol: There were several live pups next to it..... "here kitty, kitty, kitty".