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Before I bore you with the tale, get out there now and check all the routing of your looms and vacuum hoses before it's too late. Especially if you recently bought the car or if it has had a wiring or engine swap. I learnt the hard way.....
Took my 69 standard out for a cruise last weekend. It ran great, but then when I was putting her away the electrics under the hood and behind the dash caught fire! Scary stuff! I shut her off and the fire stopped pretty much immediately.
Having completed my gauge cluster swap only 3 weeks ago, I assumed it was my own fault. I had put an XR7 gauge cluster and dash in a standard car. The under dash loom had been swapped for XR7 too. I modified the wiring under the hood to save time and money and was 100% confident I had got it right.
The good news is that it wasn't my wiring that was bad. Also the fire could have been a lot worse I'll have her on the road next week. Imagine if I had been doing 70 at the time. I wouldn't have been able to shut her down so quickly.
The reason for the fire? The loom under the hood that passes round the inner fender on the drivers side had been routed right next to the exhaust manifold. It got melted through and fused two wires together. Watch out for this as it is even possible to disturb the loom when replacing the plug leads.
The only thing I want to see smoke coming from on my cat is the tires!
Took my 69 standard out for a cruise last weekend. It ran great, but then when I was putting her away the electrics under the hood and behind the dash caught fire! Scary stuff! I shut her off and the fire stopped pretty much immediately.
Having completed my gauge cluster swap only 3 weeks ago, I assumed it was my own fault. I had put an XR7 gauge cluster and dash in a standard car. The under dash loom had been swapped for XR7 too. I modified the wiring under the hood to save time and money and was 100% confident I had got it right.
The good news is that it wasn't my wiring that was bad. Also the fire could have been a lot worse I'll have her on the road next week. Imagine if I had been doing 70 at the time. I wouldn't have been able to shut her down so quickly.
The reason for the fire? The loom under the hood that passes round the inner fender on the drivers side had been routed right next to the exhaust manifold. It got melted through and fused two wires together. Watch out for this as it is even possible to disturb the loom when replacing the plug leads.
The only thing I want to see smoke coming from on my cat is the tires!