This is why you need to carry a Fire Extinguisher in your truck + have Good Insurance

[70cst]

This is not one of our trucks...
Its a 1970 SS 454 Chevelle.

This happened across the hotel last night - the owner said he felt heat coming from the front and then the engine died. He coasted into the parking lot.
He does have Hagerty Insurance.

I have Hagerty Insurance but I am going to purchase a Fire Extinguisher...

The point ... we need to carry a Fire Extinguisher which he didn't have and we need Good Insurance.

[68bowtie]

Bummer.

I had a 69 dart burn up. Learning that lesson once is enough.

[ohboy321]

I installed one a couple of years ago. This reminds me that I need to buy a few more to make sure our daily drivers also have one in each. Thanks for the reminder.

[72c20customcamper]

I'm in the habit of carrying fire extinguishers and first aid kits . When I was active with AACA they required you to have them in the car at the show.

[lks dcvn]

Can somebody share a link to a good one (Amazon, etc.)? This isn't an item I'd want to skimp on and find out it didn't meet the mark.

[72c20customcamper]

I use the kidda brands available everywhere. Never had one fail on me but makes sure you check the gage periodically. And you want one for electric and flammable liquids

[ohboy321]

Originally Posted by lks dcvn

Can somebody share a link to a good one (Amazon, etc.)? This isn't an item I'd want to skimp on and find out it didn't meet the mark.

I just ordered 3 more of these so that each vehicle in our fleet will now have one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Happy_dan]

Originally Posted by ohboy321

I installed one a couple of years ago. This reminds me that I need to buy a few more to make sure our daily drivers also have one in each. Thanks for the reminder.

I have been trying to figure out where to mount mine. Not good sitting on the front seat. I like this idea

[70c10-08]

Got one in my 06 Silverado under the rear seat it's an Amerex 5 pounder I believe no hose on it. Never had to use it but it's there if I need it, as well as a 4 d cell purple mag light flashlight

[ohboy321]

Originally Posted by Happy_dan

I have been trying to figure out where to mount mine. Not good sitting on the front seat. I like this idea

I was concerned that it may be in the way for passengers, but my wife tells me it is not a problem...and she would have no problem telling me if she didn't like it

[Steeveedee]

I don't have room in the cab for an extinguisher, but I have a pass-through into the camper shell. I plan on putting speakers back there if I don't go with that big plastic headliner with 4 tinny speakers that I see advertised. That would replace the headliner I took out (along with a BUNCH) of wires that my FiL put up there for the CB. It's a wonder that the truck didn't burn to the ground, the way those wires were in there. We repaired a light fixture in his old house that had the power wire twisted onto the light supply wire, no nut and no tape! He was not an electrical guy, obviously. I could build a bracket for the speakers and the extinguishers all in one swell foop.

[gmc684x4]

this also shows the reason not to leave Positive 12 volt wires randomly tapped off in the engine bay and to use grommets to go through the firewall

And the those little extinguishers are a one shot deal if you have room put a bigger one behind the seat

[57taskforce]

Man this sucks to see. Hope none of us ever have to go thru this. I cant help but wonder if he had a rubber fuel line from the pump to the carb. Looks like it was a nice car before the fire so I’m hoping they didn’t cheap out there.

[toolboxchev]

Have had one in my truck for years. Kidde had a major recall of fire extinguishers about 1 and 1/2 years ago.

So check those extinguishers.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by toolboxchev

Have had one in my truck for years. Kidde had a major recall of fire extinguishers about 1 and 1/2 years ago.

So check those extinguishers.

Had two exchanges at Lowes .

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by 57taskforce

Man this sucks to see. Hope none of us ever have to go thru this. I cant help but wonder if he had a rubber fuel line from the pump to the carb. Looks like it was a nice car before the fire so I’m hoping they didn’t cheap out there.

That was my thought, too. I had one of those glass fuel filters that screw together, and it unscrewed a little. Luckily I noticed it in time, as it was just a little drip. That got tossed and I put on a metal can type filter. I had a Holley on the engine at the time, and I don't recall if I could have run a hard line.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

That was my thought, too. I had one of those glass fuel filters that screw together, and it unscrewed a little. Luckily I noticed it in time, as it was just a little drip. That got tossed and I put on a metal can type filter. I had a Holley on the engine at the time, and I don't recall if I could have run a hard line.

Those specter filters are crap, had one on my Chevelle . Leaked after a month so now it's a metal one and as always a hard line with minimal rubber

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

That was my thought, too. I had one of those glass fuel filters that screw together, and it unscrewed a little. Luckily I noticed it in time, as it was just a little drip. That got tossed and I put on a metal can type filter. I had a Holley on the engine at the time, and I don't recall if I could have run a hard line.

Those "fuel filters" have burned all too many cars to the ground. I know of at least four engine fires directly attributed to them.

Fire extinguisher positively has to be where you can reach it easily and grab it in a panic. I had an OT van catch fire and knew that there was one in the van but it was hidden below and in back of the drivers seat were I forgot it was. Luckily I was in the parking lot at work and the airport fire department was at the front of the parking lot. Run beat on their door and three minutes later they had the fire out. only under hood damage but the insurance paid off well because that rig was in high demand because it was a camper conversion.

[Andy4639]

I have one of theses in all my vehicles. FireAde's.

[6t727t2]

Great advise. Now's the time for all of us procrastinators to heed the call!

[68Blu]

https://elementfire.com/

I carry these in my $$$ cars. They’re small and in these trucks space is a premium

[70cst]

Originally Posted by 68Blu

https://elementfire.com/

I carry these in my $$$ cars. They’re small and in these trucks space is a premium

Thanks

Great info

[vics stuff]

That is real sad. Glad the occupants were not injured.
Vic

[special-K]

I've been carrying extinguishers in my vehicles ever since I thought they looked cool mounted in a 4wd, just like a tach or a Kelite (became Magnalite). Then came the vehicles gaining value and the realization they could be saved from being gone in a flash.

My buddy had an intake and carb installed on his '79 K/20 in '83 and they installed a glass fuel filter. It was able to vibrate (rubber line) and connect the glass to hard metal causing a fire that destroyed one of the coolest Squarebody K20s on the planet to this day. That's when I learned no go for glass filters. As far as rubber fuel line goes, it can be used, but you have to realizes it is not permanent. Check upon all, service intervals and never run same line more than a few years.

[j_cst_10]

I had a strange occurrence in my dad's 70 Buck GS. The engine ground strap had broke and the electrical system was trying to ground though the metal shifter cable that was rubbing against the floor pan.

Long story short, the area got so hot it caught the carpet on fire when we were driving at night with the headlights and all the electrical stuff on.