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Caught my junk on fire...

tRustyK5

tRustyK5

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Was invited on a club run today with a club I'm interested in joining. So I took my daughter with me and headed out first thing this morning. We were headed to a place I'd been a half dozen times before...

Anyways, about 20 minutes from the trailhead on the FSR we were on I thought I saw smoke from under the hood. 10 seconds later I had flames and smoke pouring out from between the hood and the front fender on the passenger side. I immediately hit the brakes, got it to the side and shut it down. By the time I got the hood open the flames had almost died out...

Initially I thought the battery had broken loose and shorted, but it turned out I blew an engine oil cooler line about 4" from the rad. Looks like a worn battery cable had arced out on the line some time in the past, and it just finally blew. :doah:

Damage was actually really minimal, scorched the stickers on top of the passenger battery, and a slight bit of melting on the shroud...and about a quart and a half of oil puked all over the engine bay, core support and my front brakes on the passenger side.

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Funny how it pulls to the left now when I'm braking...:rolleyes:

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A well lubed spring and shock...

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The culprit, and the solution that got us home.

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The aluminum line with the black stuff on it is the cooler line that let go. The solution was a smearing of JB weld over the pinholes covered with two layers of heat shrink tube. Many thanks to tpi_boy :bow: :bow: I found out just before turning back that Jason was a CK5er.

Anyways, good people...sucky day though. Both my battery trays are busted too. :doah:

Rene
 
so many post titles are missleading if you dont read the forum there in... lol glad there wasn't too much damage though!
 
BranndonC said:
so many post titles are missleading if you dont read the forum there in... lol glad there wasn't too much damage though!
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x2. when he said he caught his "junk on fire", i wasnt thinking blazer!
 
Glad it turned out ok and nobody was hurt including the K5. Mine usually has that much oil leaking out of it.:D Crate engine is in the garage though.
 
tRustyK5 said:
Was invited on a club run today with a club I'm interested in joining. So I took my daughter with me and headed out first thing this morning. We were headed to a place I'd been a half dozen times before...

Anyways, about 20 minutes from the trailhead on the FSR we were on I thought I saw smoke from under the hood. 10 seconds later I had flames and smoke pouring out from between the hood and the front fender on the passenger side. I immediately hit the brakes, got it to the side and shut it down. By the time I got the hood open the flames had almost died out...

Initially I thought the battery had broken loose and shorted, but it turned out I blew an engine oil cooler line about 4" from the rad. Looks like a worn battery cable had arced out on the line some time in the past, and it just finally blew. :doah:

Damage was actually really minimal, scorched the stickers on top of the passenger battery, and a slight bit of melting on the shroud...and about a quart and a half of oil puked all over the engine bay, core support and my front brakes on the passenger side.



Anyways, good people...sucky day though. Both my battery trays are busted too. :doah:

Rene
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Are you extinguisher equipped? Finally got one in mine a couple weeks ago...
 
No, I was very ill equipped today...

That is going to change.

Rene
 
Clever fix Rene. If that woulda happened to me I'd still be sitting there cryin like a little girl. And as if I didn't already carry enuf stuff around with me (so clever guys like you can fix my junk)...*note to self - add heat shrink to my things-for-clever-guys-to-use-to-fix-my-junk kit*

Glad it was only minor. Would have hated to see your rig all messed up. I love that truck. Excitement for your daughter tho!
 
is it just me or would it have made more sense to install the oil cooler on the driver side tank and the atf cooler on the passanger side tank from the factory?

:doah: thats right thay dont think like that . thay are paid big money to be stupid. :rolleyes:


glad you didnt loose your rig or any major damage or peronal health problems .
 
BranndonC said:
so many post titles are missleading if you dont read the forum there in... lol glad there wasn't too much damage though!
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Kind of what I was thinking. Was beginning to wonder why lounge material was in the garage. :doah:
 
sweetk30 said:
is it just me or would it have made more sense to install the oil cooler on the driver side tank and the atf cooler on the passanger side tank from the factory?

:doah: thats right thay dont think like that . thay are paid big money to be stupid. :rolleyes:


glad you didnt loose your rig or any major damage or peronal health problems .
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No tranny cooler on my rad. It does seem stupid to put the oil cooler ports as far away as possible though...

At least the fire pretty much died out as soon as i shut it off. I'm still not 100% sure what ignited the oil. No signs of any shorting anywhere near the battery, and the exhaust wasn't sprayed at all.

My daughter was pretty freaked out, she didn't want to get anywhere near my truck for quite a while. i guess she thought it was going to explode like on TV or something. :haha:

Rene
 
Glad everyone and T are ok!!! That coud've turned out alot worse if you hadn't noticed it for a while!!

And I agree, the title is misleading. :haha:​
 
at least your still here with K% intact and able to run, I don't see anything a good steam cleaning won't fix!:D
 
Source of ignition...?

On a diesel,I'd think it'd be hard(er) to ignite a fuel or oil spill--no spark plug wires,coil,or other sources of ignition..my 6.2's exhaust manifolds dont feel "hot" like a gas motors are,so even they would be less likely to ignite something..I'd guess your battery cable arced and lit things off,or the oil squirted into the altenator..I've had the brushes in an alternator ignite carb cleaner when I was not careful where I aimed it!..:eek1:

Glad you had only minimal damage!..your luckier than I am...if it were MY truck,I'd be watering down the ashes probably...and calling my insurance company...:doah:
 
My atf went up pretty fast... ask big83chevy4x4 about it :) A few singed plug wires and a few new vacuum lines, and I was up and going again :thumb:
 
tRustyK5 said:
No, I was very ill equipped today...

That is going to change.

Rene
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And you have the voice of your latest experiance to guide you.
Glad it turned out not too bad. Fire always gets my heart pumping high volume.
-Cary
 
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