Ruvicon
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So I mentioned this morning that I had an engine fire on my way to work this morning. It wasn’t a huge fire, but flames under the hood aren’t a good thing. I quickly extinguished it.
Here’s what it looked once the fire was out (there were no flames in this shot, but the fire extinguisher (FE) media on the hood kinda looks like flames).
Here it is getting towed home:
Here’s an under hood shot before blowing out that FE crap:
The bulk of the damage appears to be inside of this green circled area. I don’t think it was a fuel line which was melted.
I really need to inspect the wiring after removing the melted protective wrap to see if the cause was electrical. The ground strap to the hood was fried near the wiring loom running horizontally across the firewall as was the tranny yellow dip stick, plastic fuel line to front on intake and two plastic vacuum lines running left to right near battery box.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to diagnose the cause or who have seen anything like this?
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Here’s what it looked once the fire was out (there were no flames in this shot, but the fire extinguisher (FE) media on the hood kinda looks like flames).
![IMG_8341.JPG IMG_8341.JPG](https://www.wayalife.com/data/attachments/267/267555-0b2e8b55afb5d9e197f23eed3fa94614.jpg)
Here it is getting towed home:
![IMG_8344.JPG IMG_8344.JPG](https://www.wayalife.com/data/attachments/267/267899-7fe00102f93a9b75236990d826a0a29d.jpg)
Here’s an under hood shot before blowing out that FE crap:
![IMG_8355.JPG IMG_8355.JPG](https://www.wayalife.com/data/attachments/267/267904-1d1940fbce721664327ac3182ac8c29c.jpg)
![IMG_8357.JPG IMG_8357.JPG](https://www.wayalife.com/data/attachments/267/267910-21e015b2ebd1ba64e1653f4ce8a42d60.jpg)
The bulk of the damage appears to be inside of this green circled area. I don’t think it was a fuel line which was melted.
![IMG_8363.jpg IMG_8363.jpg](https://www.wayalife.com/data/attachments/267/267936-4c76bc286411056eb5e81d6a2cbef1d5.jpg)
I really need to inspect the wiring after removing the melted protective wrap to see if the cause was electrical. The ground strap to the hood was fried near the wiring loom running horizontally across the firewall as was the tranny yellow dip stick, plastic fuel line to front on intake and two plastic vacuum lines running left to right near battery box.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to diagnose the cause or who have seen anything like this?
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