VENOM 500 Engine Fire ....

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Started up, reversed out of garage ( in my case a wooden structure with 3 sides and 2 doors and roof) belted up Grace, opened the gate and then.........smoke....lots and lots of smoke from engine bay.....Grace jumps out and heads off at speed to grab our hose pipe whilst I turn off ignition and pop the hood.....engine dowsed ,lots of smoke and steam.......investigation under way.

[Viper]

sounds like the power steering cap has come off ? or the mice have been busy again nibbling away over the winter

Edited by Viper on Saturday 23 May 20:09

[fatboy18]

Did someone say engine fire! Tom do you want my fire extinguishers again?

[Dr-Bob]

SH!T!!!!!
Hope its nothing to serious,,,

[fatboy18]

Tom, this may be that Le mans problem rearing up again!

[VENOM500]

fatboy18 said:

Did someone say engine fire! Tom do you want my fire extinguishers again?

Thanks for the offer but the hose worked fine, loosing the light so will inspect in the morning. I don`t seem to have done a "proper" job unlike your Cobra thank goodness.

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Dr-Bob said:

SH!T!!!!!
Hope its nothing to serious,,,

I hope not Baz,,, or it might be on a flat be to you.I didn`t get any flames just loads of smoke and it didn`t seem to be electrical, the smoke came from the somewhere under the L/H manifold so I can think what would be there to burn???? It drove fine last time out about 6 weeks ago.Will let you know my findings in the morning.

[Dr-Bob]

If it was warm when you put it away you may have a visitor nesting????

[neilsfishing]

How can you sleep get a tourch or a lead light! well I hope its not to much fingers crossed Tom

[Viper]

just chatted to Tom, sounds like power steering to me espicially when he said he checked the cap a couple of years ago ! luckily just smoke this time and no actual fire. Told Tom to check the fluid level if the cap is still there, incase its leaking elsewhere

its quite a common occurance on the forums and has cropped up quite a few times over the years

http://www.viperalley.com/forum/viper-discussions-...

http://www.hipoengineering.com/PowerSteeringTube.a...
here you go Tom, every gen1 and 2 owner should have such a device
best $25 you can spend

check the POWER STEERING info....
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... Service info

Edited by Viper on Saturday 23 May 22:50

[Dr-Bob]

You had alook yet Tom????

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Many thanks guys for the help/thoughts and Neil thanks for the link.I checked this morning and the power steering cap was still in place, removed it and checked the level , which seemed fine (about 1.5 inces from the top?)but it was interesting to note what last time I checked the cap (a few years ago) it was so stiff I coudn`t budge it but this morning it unscrewed fine (so it had slackened a little over the years).
So, what caused the smoke? The only clues I could find were, a stash of empty acorn shells on top of ther engine block/under the intake manifold and some mouse dropping on the bulkhead panel, so I guess it must have been a mouse or something nesting under the manifold heat shield! Looks like the cats have failed me again, going to get some "Rentokil" poison things to put around the car.....the joys of country living.....err not

[Viper]

glad thats sorted an nothing serious, you need to train up some killer ninja chickens

Edited by Viper on Sunday 24th May 13:23

[fishboy]

thats good news tom .

[fatboy18]

Roast Nuts then

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