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Well my daughter was driving down the highway with my other daughter and a friend, she got lost so she pulled off at the nearest exit pulled into the parking lot of a gas station and they saw smoke coming off the engine...
she turns off the ac and more smoke... some coming in the interior... she turns off the vehicle and still smoke...
they depart the vehicle and call me about it, I figured it was overheating...then she says the paint is bubbling off the hood!
the car's engine proceeds to become engulfed in flames and everything from the firewall to the front bumper is burnt to the ground. Of course she calls the fire department and they put out the fire.
other than the loss of an important vehicle I am most concerned with how this happened? Spontaneous combustion of engines (especially with my children driving) is a significant concern for me!
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more details that might help your consideration...
I raced the car at an autocross a week before - 3 runs, 57 sec. each, needless to say I lost but it was fun.
I had just rebolted the ac compressor to it's bracket and begun using ac again (it was squealing real bad when engaged without the bolts) some had noticed a mildewy air freshener smell when the ac turned on.
it is a 760T so the turbo was probably hot (as I assume turbos normally are)
there was a vacuum hose from the intake to the turbo's waste gate (I think it's the waste gate) that I kept finding had come off it's connection at the turbo so I just plugged it with a golf tee to keep unmetered air from getting to the intake,leaving the turbo side unconnected as it had been doing to itself anyway.
any thoughts would be appreciated ... my wife has eliminated "turbo" from her vocabulary and we will be replacing this vehicle sometime soon... unfortunately we only had liability insurance so it is a total loss. I'm leaving now to sweep up the engine parts that melted off the car.
if anyone needs some tan leather seating or other tan interior parts let me know and I'll pull them before it goes to the junkyard.
jack
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'86 245, 282,000 mi., '87 760T 164,000 mi.
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