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Post by michael on Sept 1, 2018 16:45:04 GMT 1
The friend of a friend of mine brought a new (for him) van and asked my friend to drive it home. After a short while he heard a mini-explosion under the bonnet and pulled over. This was the result! It was thought that the fire was the result of a petrol leak! A toimely reminder to check your fuel lines occasionally - your nose is very good and if you smell petrol investigate immediately. Also a couple of quick questions for you to answer:- a) What is the make and model? b) Where is it (clue - it is on the M1)? |
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Post by Eddie on Sept 2, 2018 16:29:42 GMT 1
Good advice indeed.
I meant to post something similar but forgot.
About 3 weeks ago there was a very strong smell of petrol in my garage and on investigation I found that the flexible fuel pipe from the tank to the metal pipe was leaking. I replaced it with some new pipe that I bought from Halfords and also replaced the flexible pipe in the engine bay.
The fuel pipes were replaced by the previous owner when the car was imported in 2011 but the pipes were obviously not suitable for modern fuel and had perished. The new pipe is marked "SAE 30 J6 - SUITABLE FOR UNLEADED".
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Post by cardaft on Sept 3, 2018 7:46:12 GMT 1
Well its a diesel, hard to tell which make as the engine is generic so could be Ford or a couple of others. Fire could have been caused by an injector leak or a heater plug blowing out of the head, I suppose lots of sites for potential seat of fire.
When my much missed Jaguar ( real one) 3.8 S type went up in flames , it was caused by the brake pressure switch shorting out, over heating , not blowing the fuse, melting the switch body and allowing the brake fluid to escape which it promptly ignited, causing an engine fire. Good 'ol repo parts?
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Post by colin on Sept 3, 2018 19:03:51 GMT 1
Yep, definitely a diesel....the 4 steel injector pipes are a dead giveaway...as Cardaft mentioned job to say what make, probably Shitron/Pewkgot/FIAT (stands for "fix it again tomorrow")...badge engineered eurocrap, so who cares?? Rant over!! Col.
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Post by michael on Sept 4, 2018 12:36:09 GMT 1
Yep, definitely a diesel....the 4 steel injector pipes are a dead giveaway...as Cardaft mentioned job to say what make, probably Shitron/Pewkgot/FIAT (stands for "fix it again tomorrow")...badge engineered eurocrap, so who cares?? Rant over!! Col. Getting close Colin! Here's the next clue:-  |
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Post by cardaft on Sept 4, 2018 13:12:15 GMT 1
Its a Citroen (looked quite tidy)
I have just put a Ford Fusion 1.6 diesel ( same engine as photo) back on the road was a one owner car, chap gave it to me or rather my wife ( 'your husband likes cars, have this')
This thing was bought new by him, it came with a full service history and they must have saw him coming, as one thing is clear it has not been serviced for years ,there is a bill for a engine oil and filter change very recently, the oil is so think ,it had solid chunks of carbon in it, and the engine management light was on !! Now I hate diesels but thought I should have a go at it. One thing you realise is the engine is designed to eat its own waste, I changed the turbo (main oil seal had gone so engine was running on some of that) changed water pump and timing belt, heater plugs and cleaned out the EGR system, freed off the brakes and put a decent set of tyres on it, changed the oil and filter 3 times in a week to get the oil in some sort of acceptable condition, local garage checked it over and motd it, who commented how clean it was underneath Mrs Cardaft decided to run it till we sold it or some family member pitched me a need for a car, anyway, its £30 and does almost 60mpg ,it goes surprisingly well,when first acquired it had gone into 'limp home mode' so that is reset and now handles like a go cart, far too quick for its own or my good.I do not think its going anyway soon, Mrs CD is talking of getting a dent in the door repaired, I still do not like diesels though.
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Post by colin on Sept 4, 2018 13:56:49 GMT 1
I'm a bit late, but yep a Shitron! As CD says modern stuff is comparatively better on fuel but at what cost? (rant coming on) By the time all of the so called gimmicks are made in various factories around the world the offset in use of materials is probably more than just using petrol in your classic, so I reckon it goes that we might just as well use the oil while we can get and bug##r it, lets face it the rest of the world will never come to our aid and they're going to use the resources regardless, now I've spouted off!!….COL the Grump!
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Post by michael on Sept 5, 2018 12:55:12 GMT 1
I dislike the platform sharing especially when you get Japcarp meets Eurobox. The technology is also getting OTT for us Grumpies. A friend has had a couple of Mondeos brought via Ford's employee discount. They were each kept for many years. The last one was a totally reliable diesel that over ten years towed a caravan all over the UK and to the south of France every few years. After looking around he opted for an ex-demo VW Golf. It has a 1.4TSi engine and a DSG gearbox. A small turbo engine linked to a semiautomatic towing a caravan seems the wrong combination to me...
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Post by michael on Sept 5, 2018 20:16:37 GMT 1
Thought I would share messaged me - did it have Firestone tyres... 3/10...
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Post by colin on Sept 6, 2018 16:00:49 GMT 1
It puts a new angle on the idea of "nipping out for a quick burn up!"....
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Post by cardaft on Sept 6, 2018 19:36:15 GMT 1
I have started looking for a Jaguar v12 engine, I have a Triumph Spitfire chassis lying about and I have notion to combine the two and make a sort of alloy bodied fifties GP replica.
I like the idea of the V12 as it must be the most environmentally unfriendly engine I can think off, I will totally reject any sort of official inspection and basically run it till I'm caught.
The Ford Fusion of which I recently spoke positively about, this afternoon it blow out a glow plug( bloody 'bang' almost a cause for a change of underwear), unfortunately it did not catch fire and is sitting feeling sorry for itself on the driveway. Look on the morrow for a glow in the sky in the North,if seen, I have failed on a cheap fix and put a match to the bloody thing, wish me and it luck and pass the matches !!,
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