More Engine Fires

Nov 13, 2004 4 Replies
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To All:



It's been more than ten years since I began posting VW fix-it-up billy-dews to the Internet. The first article I posted told folks how to prevent engine fires, addressing a problem Volkswagen addressed official in 1957 or '58 in a Service Note to their dealers.



Time has added a few more wrinkles to the engine-fire problem but preventing such fires remains stone-simple.



Track down #6 of the TULZ series. Or a copy of the early 'Sermon' files. When a bug or bus begins to burn the biggest reason is sitting right there in the driver's seat.


-Bob Hoover


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Bob, you have reached and helped many...thanks for what you do....

for those that can't/won't track it down, go here...:

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------------------- Chris Perdue "I'm ever so thankful for the Internet; it has allowed me to keep a finger in the pie and to make some small contribution to those younger who will carry the air-cooled legend forward" Jim Mais Feb. 2004

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Amen.

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Add me to one of those who didn't read it! Teacher sister-in-law was using it for short trip to school --- brass tube popped out of carb and engine crispied! Fire took out rear window, wiring, engine lid and the carb meted to a small aluminum blob! Guess it could have been worse! Wish I had told her about the fire extinguisher in trunk --- would have worked better than sand.

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Got the fire extinguisher, never had the POS fuel filter, and made the feed through grommet repair shortly after getting my '64 Bug.

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fuel hose on the carburetor and fuel pump were 1/4" sae (too big)and about ready to fall off.

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