Fire! (Or, dont start trucks on dry grass!)

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Jamies440

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OK guys,

This ones kinda funny, after the fact, and no, no Mopars were hurt during this process! I pulled my '85 that I just dropped the 360 into onto the front lawn to free up some driveway space on Thursday (to work on my mom's Chebby S-Blazer, go figure :shifty:). Well, it ran out of gas and I didnt get any until yesterday (Friday). Primed that bad boy up, probably put too much in the carb, cranked it, pedal down, and FaWoomph! Big fireball exited one of the manifolds, setting the grass below the truck on fire! [smilie=2:

Saw it by the smoke coming up from the open hood. Did some scrambling around, and tried to start the truck (it had fired off and ran some before I shut the key off), Nope, no go. Decide that the only option after seeing it not on fire was to push it back. Wasnt too heavy thank goodness, and it wasnt a big fire, so I stamped it out. But, theres a nice little 1.5 ft diameter patch in our FRONT lawn thats burned out. Thank goodness its fall and the grass is starting to die off. Waittaminute, thats what caused it to burn in the first place. :hmmm:

After it was out, I got back in it to refire it, and there was smoke still inside and it smells like southern fried lawn, or did with the smoke in there

Lesson learned here: Do NOT dump too much fuel into the carb of trucks on dry front lawns, especially if said truck has open manifolds :doh: :shifty:
 
ever worked on a piece of plywood?

glad no-one got hurt, watch next year that will be the best patch.
 
Did something similar to my dad's 78 Power Wagon a few years back. Was the hottest day in Oregon in a long time 102* and dad and I had just come off a construction job up in the east hills of Portland. We get to the bottom of the hill and his truck dies. Ran out of gas. Luckily there was a city worker there with a gas can. We paid him for the gas and filled the tank...no go. I primed the carb and started the truck. Next thing I know there is a flame shooting out of the carb. I barely put any in which was weird...well we get the fire out and I try to restart it and it fires right up, kinda rough for a second or two then it ran better than it ever had before:wtf::huh: 360 with a 4 barrell. Sadly he let the truck get impounded a few months after that for lack of insurance and it sitting in one spot for too long:mad: Prolly a good thing though. That truck is better off out of his hands!!!
 
HAHA...glad no one was hurt, I don't have any real good stories just the usual back fire though the carb stuff :huh: ...My Uncle Dave, dad's bro, however he set my Morris, my stepdad, on fire about 20 years ago... They worked at the same place (a meat wholesale/retail store) and they were both truck drivers. Anyway it's the beginning of Feb, there was about 8-10 inches of snow on the ground and my uncle is under the hood of one of those big Chevy 10 ton trucks with a STYROFOAM cup full of gas... my mom's husband is one of those know nothing, know it alls and he's giving directions. Well the truck cranks and backfires though the carb, Dave feels a little heat and flings the cup... towards Morris and he goes down in the proverbial flames:bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: a couple of the other guys grab him and throw him into the snow to put him out. Just then their boss comes out of the building see get thrown down and comes over and starts yelling at him "I told you to keep your ass in the building" :D. My dad, and all the guys they worked with said he did it on purpose... Dave says he was at the wrong place at the wrong time and won't say anything else about it...My wife is yelling at me because I'm laughing, actually rofl while writing this, It's not really funny, but Morris wasn't really hurt, or scarred badly.:doubt:
 
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