JuanGrande
Jr. Member
On my way to work yesterday, I decided to swing by the local Napa Auto parts store to pick up a few after christmas things. While in the store, someone yells that a car is on fire outside. I immediately think"that's not good, I wonder who's car it is?" then the onwer of the store runs by with a fire extinguisher and says Jon your Bronco is burning ... Oh sh!t! Luckily, the parts guys are familiar with car fires (they had a van burn there not too long ago) and we didn't open the hood (more air for the fire) and we just stuck the nozzle up under the wheel well. Turns out that a shop rag (which was in stuck next to the jack on the top of the wheel - it had been there since I had bought the rig in Sept. - I thought that it was a good idea to leave it there...) fell onto the manifold, and as it burned, it melted the hard fuel line (which I thought was melt, and actually turned out to be plastic!?#!!). I was so close to loosing the entire rig. <br><br>Well, after we put the fire out, it took about twenty minutes for me to cut out a section of the old plastic line, replace it (temporarily) with some regular fuel line, and then continued on my way to work in the Bronco. You couldn't tell that there had even been a fire unless you poped the hood and asked why it looked like it had been snowing in the engine compartment. Anyway, I consider myself very lucky that the fire didn't take the entire car (I gave the Napa guys a 12-pack of Sierra Nevada Beer for their help) or that I wasn't driving down the Freeway when this happened. The cool thing is that twenty minutes after the fire, I had the Bronco running again. My BMW wouldn't had been able to do that (then again, it probably wouldn't have caught on fire either). Thanks for listening and sorry for the long rambling post.<br><br>Jon "Honey, that car that I have been spending all that money on is gone" Clay
