Posted by Jason in Utah on Sunday, September 15, 2002 at 6:26PM :
Ugh, my W200 damn near burned to the ground yesterday! I took it for a short drive(not by choice) to see if it would be movable then all of the sudden flames shot into the cab through one of the holes in the firewall(hence the name!) I stopped jumped out and got the hood open, MY CARBURETOR IS ON FIRE!!!! THE DISTRIBUTOR TOO!!!!!!!! OH S(!*$ put it out put it out put it out! towels were the only thing we had to put it out, so we tried to smother it, this only worked to an extent, then the towels went up too!, we finally got some water and were able to put it out, but only after it burned all my distributor wires, spark plug wires,etc. the basic cause of the fire was that my carburetor that I wasn't finished with yet was spraying gas(I didn't know this at the time, of course) and it acted just like a flame thrower. The reason for all this?? Someone called the police on the neighbor for having his truck out on the road, so the jerk cop said " I just decided to ticket everyone, and if these vehicles aren't moved by monday they're getting towed" this was friday afternoon, way to go Orem city give us no time or warning to do anything about it. Even if we(the entire neighborhood) had been able to register them the DMV is closed saturday and friday after everyone gets off work too! so everyone on the block is annoyed now because everyone here had a car or something on the road, and noone has enough driveway space to keep them. Our neighbor had to park his motorhome on his front lawn, I had to cram all three of my trucks into the driveway, and on and on. so basically, I had to rush repairs(NEVER a good idea)just to get my truck off the road so it wouldn't get towed off. Argh. hopefully i can repair the burmned wires this week and get back on track with the resto. and once again let me say NO Holley carb is a good Holley carb!(my 2 cents) They're deadly! Anyway hope all is well and non-explosive with everyone! Peace, Jason
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