Any New Yaknee workshop fans will know that the most important bit of kit is the safety goggles.
However!!......... don't under estimate the power of a garden hose to put out a flaming inferno that is resultant in burning underseal severing your diesel fuel line.
I'd made a mental note to avoid the fuel line a couple of weeks ago... but we all know what happens to mental notes :-( Work had slowly progressed closer to the fuel line but the brain failed to engadge.
Oh how I sprinted to switch off the power before unleashing the torrent of water under the engine bay. Leaping over power tools, cables and discarded rotten sills and inner wing.
I think it was a mix of familiarity breeding contempt and just dammed poor luck.
Only thing missing was the slow motion, "NoooOOOooOO!!!!!!!!".
Mrs D's eyes met with mine as she observed proceedings from the Conservatory. The actual engine bay end of the car was out of sight, she could tell immediately that things were going pearshaped. No words needed to be exchanged, that knowing glance " Ambulance or Fire engine dear ?" , either that or I'd entered a Mig leaping contest.
Fortunately the resulting diesel sponsored flame poured away from the Rangie so damage was only limited to a knackered plastic fuel line.....few....!
Spending the rest of the day draining the tank with no way of stoppoing it also prolonged the agonoy of getting it back to work.
At least the forsight to have the hose on standby paid off.. Little did I suspect the artistic impression that the session would create and had the hose not been there It would have been Alfie the toastie...FS: cheap rolling chassis.
Thought I'd share it for anyone feeling equally as complacent as me.
Lee D