Fire in the hole

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

Word of advice for those of you with stacks:



Throwing garbage in the bed may or may not result in an in bed fire...



Also, gatorade, in large enough quantities, can snuff out a fire...

 

[cerberusiam]

Word of advice for those of you with stacks:



Throwing garbage in the bed may or may not result in an in bed fire...



Also, gatorade, in large enough quantities, can snuff out a fire...

You do realize this thread is worthless without pictures, right?? :-laf:-laf

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

I would have taken pictures had I not been busy stomping out fires...



My buddy ran like a little girl as soon as the truck stopped. I suppose the fact that the fuel tank was sitting directly under the fire isn't really a settling thought, but I wasn't about to let my truck meet its end like that. A good captain goes down with his ship, right?



All's well that ends well I guess. After I finally got the fires out, a highway patrol showed up, and just to be safe gave me a brand new CO2 bedliner courtisy of the Watertown PD.

 

[BWJensen]

This is a picture of the single stack on my project truck. Built in a burrito warmer. Might as well put that heat to use - :-laf



MADDOG

 

[JGrefenstette]

hhahha



i was beginning to wonder where you went matt. now i see you were yout stopming flames out of you bed. i wouldnt worry about your fuel tank... diesel wont go up like gas. check out that thread i did on the stack project, youll see the angle iron i welded under the tool box to prevent the problem you just had i got a gas can and a diesel can in my bed about 4inches from the stacks so i really want to avoid a fire if you know what i mean. :-laf:-laf

 

[PToombs]

Oh, kids! What am I going to do with you? I feel like an overwhelmed foster parent.



And I was going to adopt you 2 mutants? :-laf:-laf:-laf

















By the way, get some pics next time. Darn kids anyways!

 

[JGrefenstette]

hhahah well shucks pete, does this mean youve changed your mind????



heck if you really want i can just pour some gas in my bed, throw a match on it and film it for ya???? :-laf

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

I shoulda just let it burn until all the garbage was gone. Do it once a month to get rid of the junk in my bed and be done with it.



For the 2+ years Ive had stacks, I never had that happen before. I think there may have been a little oil sitting in one of the empty jugs that started it, but I guess I'll never know. There were about 50 plastic bottles melted to my stacks, so my little pyrotechnics display got rid of that little problem for me.

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

My little fire story is spreading around work like... well... fire...



My new nickname here is "smokey. "

 

[Greenleaf]

At first glance, I was thinking you overdosed on chili powder. Going in or comming out, either way... ... .



So you say I had NOT OT TO haul wood mulch in the 92, rather utalize the 90 w/it's tail pipe, hummmmm?

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

I'll bet wood mulch would cause quite the specticle if it lit up...

 

[DieselBuzz]

I had a bucket of dry ice in my bed once, just under the edge and in the back. You should have seen the lady's face on the hi-way and the way she was pointing at the bed. I think she was mouthing "fire" but I just waved and smiled.

She must have thought I was the most ignorant thing.

 

[CToney]

Diesel fuel doesn't go boom like gas does. Your buddy must not have known this. A good captain should go down with the ship.

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

Yeah, I know diesel isnt as volitile as gas, but my buddy is the same guy who 6 months ago asked me what a piston ring was.

 

[JGrefenstette]

hhaha a piston ring. i love it when people ask me why my truck is so loud, and i start out, "well ya see, with a diesel the compression ratio is... . (realize theyre lost) hmm, ya see in the engine... . (still lost) umm, under the hood thers this big heavy thing... . :-laf:-laf:-laf sometimes its just not even worth tyring with certain people

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

Now that I have to shut off my truck from under the hood, the first thing everyone asks me is if I disconnect the battery to shut it off. Then the frustrating little talk begins where I try to explain that my truck doesn't need the battery to run. From now on when people ask I'm just going to look at them and say "no comprende... "

 

[JGrefenstette]

so you really can disconect the battery with the motor on and it wont shut the truck off?? my truck shut down when my alternator was bad. i could understand the truck still running if we had generators but with the alternators, dosent the lift shutoff solenoid get power from the battery which is charged by the alt, instead of a genereator, that supplys the motor and charges the battery for starting purposes. ?????

 

[cerberusiam]

so you really can disconect the battery with the motor on and it wont shut the truck off?? my truck shut down when my alternator was bad. i could understand the truck still running if we had generators but with the alternators, dosent the lift shutoff solenoid get power from the battery which is charged by the alt, instead of a genereator, that supplys the motor and charges the battery for starting purposes. ?????

Thats right, but if you take the guts out of the shut down solenoid or mess up the seal... ..... manual shut down lever time.

 

[JGrefenstette]

so removing a terminal will NOT shut off the motor? i would go try it, but i dont want to wake up this half of the county :-laf

 

[Tippin Spotted Cow]

The way the soleniod works, is its most likely spring loaded or something, and the electrical charge holds it against the force of the spring to open up the fuel line. When it loses power, the spring automatically closes the fuel line and kills the motor. On overfueled motors, the tip of the soleniod plunger gets sucked off and leaves the fuel line wide open whether theres power or not. But as long as that soleniod plunger is intact, all pulling a terminal off will do is make your truck not run.