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It commited suicide... poor lil thing. I would kill for an r/t but I wouldnt want to be killed by a flaming one.
I would buy it and rebuild I didnt have my RamC and if the truck wasnt up in the land of snow lol.
And yes it is nearly impossible to keep paint on a burnt car.
I would buy it and rebuild I didnt have my RamC and if the truck wasnt up in the land of snow lol.
And yes it is nearly impossible to keep paint on a burnt car.
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I wouldn't call that a gasoline fire. not nearly enough flames. This is why I carry a fire extinguisher with me in my truck. I'm gonna do my damnedest to put it out if there's a fire.
electrical fires are easy, they rarely flame up right away, and will sit there smoldering, sparking, etc as insulation melts. at the first sign of electrical fire, which you'll know by the awful acrid stench...kill the power, pop the hood and yank off the battery ground to kill the juice to the truck, and that'll be the end of it. you'll have some wires to replace, but the truck will be fine.
why would ANYONE want to just walk away and let it burn? try to put it out unless you WANT it to be totaled!
and in a fire like that, under the hood...it'll take a LONG time for the fuel tank to melt and turn into a greasey fireball on the side of the road.
if the heat gets to be too intense or your extinguisher doesn't kill the fire, THEN it's time to walk away and watch it burn.
electrical fires are easy, they rarely flame up right away, and will sit there smoldering, sparking, etc as insulation melts. at the first sign of electrical fire, which you'll know by the awful acrid stench...kill the power, pop the hood and yank off the battery ground to kill the juice to the truck, and that'll be the end of it. you'll have some wires to replace, but the truck will be fine.
why would ANYONE want to just walk away and let it burn? try to put it out unless you WANT it to be totaled!
and in a fire like that, under the hood...it'll take a LONG time for the fuel tank to melt and turn into a greasey fireball on the side of the road.
if the heat gets to be too intense or your extinguisher doesn't kill the fire, THEN it's time to walk away and watch it burn.
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while your getting into the physics of fire, and attempting to put someone elses truck out, ill step back and watch and save my skin. not every truck is a fireball as soon as the fire starts, but not all of them ARENT either, and i dont wanna try and be superman on one of the ones that DOES take off and explode while my dumb ass is 5 feet away with a fire extinguisher.
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also, as soon as one fuel line in the engine compartment is broken or melted in half, and the truck is still turning itself over, that fuel pump is gonna be pumpin fuel out everywhere. so pretty much you would have a flame thrower under the hood as long as the truck is trying to start itself.
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I didn't say I'd try to save someone elses truck if I came along. I meant I'd try to save my OWN truck if it caught fire while I was in it.
lotsa guys have saved their rides from fire successfully...sure there was damage and the rides needed repairs, but they were able to prevent a total loss.
I know that in the 7 years I've been a member of moparts.com, there's been maybe 3 or 4 threads about guys who have had engine fires and were able to save their rides by having a fire extinguisher with them. Not saying that it happens every day, but in a community as small as moparts, I'd say that's a pretty good number "per capita" especially since I only remember 1 thread where a guy burnt his house down from an "engine fire" and that was caused by using an old school, incandescent bulb "drop light" while working under the car and a drop of gasoline hit the hot glass
I've got too much money and time invested in my ride to let it burn to the ground and HOPE that insurance will pay me enough to cover the loss.
but, not saying that you HAVE to either. if you see your ride is on fire, and have the mind to turn the KEY OFF, before you get out...the fuel pump will shut off, and you won't turn the front of your truck into a flame thrower.
All you gotta do, is NOT panic when it happens. you're not going to prevent ALL damage, but the truck isn't going to spontaneously explode in a giant fireball either. if you really think that it will...stop watching TV...because, cars don't explode from falling off a cliff either!:jester:
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if its my truck, and just started smokin, id take care of it. but if there's flame and my trucks doin all kind of funky shit like tryin to start itself, im gettin outta there. ive had plenty of toys, with a lot of money into them, and i would NEVER risk my life for a toy. thats just me, tho.
and i would have to assume that since no one was around the truck, it had been sittin out there and then started acting up. i doubt it started happening when the kid was still sittin in it just after he parked it.
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True, if it started burning while parked outside and nobody around...that sucks. not much you can do. at least these R/Ts are not as hard to find as say, a factory big block 70 Cuda!
I saw the video and thought he was driving it, then pulled over to the curb when it started smoking...didn't read any comments though, did he say "I walked outside to find my parked truck burning"?
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I doubt it was much of a gasoline fire. Even if, that's the reason why I have a Tri-Class Fire Extinguisher. Covers mostly everything. I mean if it was in a garage or something, I would try and put it out. Since it's in a street, I mean theres probably not much you can do.
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from what i gathered from the video, it wasnt the owner taping. im sure if it was, he would be saying something in there about "my truck" or "what am i gonna do now." i think it was just a neighbor.
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fair enough. this is an example of how a battery cut-off switch is a GOOD thing!
every time I park my truck and walk away, I flip the master switch and it kills power to EVERYTHING!
although, probably not feasable for a daily driver or computer controlled EFI vehicle! and I don't really care that the clock in my radio is always wrong, or that I don't have any presets on the tuner. I do have the peace of mind of knowing that I don't have to worry about an electrical short causing a fire when I'm not around it!
every time I park my truck and walk away, I flip the master switch and it kills power to EVERYTHING!
although, probably not feasable for a daily driver or computer controlled EFI vehicle! and I don't really care that the clock in my radio is always wrong, or that I don't have any presets on the tuner. I do have the peace of mind of knowing that I don't have to worry about an electrical short causing a fire when I'm not around it!
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last year, we had a mixer truck at our cement plant catch on fire after hours and almost take out the 3 mixers parked next to it and the shop they were parked in. then i, as the only mechanic for our quarry location, had the wonderful task of putting battery switches in EVER piece of equipment we had that didnt already have one. right around 20 pieces. that sucked ass, and took forever. they even made us take the battery connections off any vehicle without a switch yet at the end of the day. even the f150's the supervisors run around in.
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thats what i was thinkin. all the loaders and haul trucks already have battery switches from the factory. but i had to do all the skid steers, water trucks, small earth moving equipment, air compressors, maintenance trucks, etc. pain in the ass! especially when they supply the switches, and then tell you to make them work with the existing battery ground wire! total pain in the ass.
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