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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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FIRE EXTINGUISHER is without thinking.
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This morning I used starter fluid to wake up an engine that has been sitting for months.
I'll never spray starter fluid on the air filter again.

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The engine had a hiccup and caught the filter on fire.

I have a spare filter and a spare fire extinguisher.
The fire extinguisher was only a few feet away.

Lesson learned. Remove the air filter and know where your fire extinguishers are.
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Yeah that could have been bad if near the gas tank ! Fire extinguishers are good ! Got one for Christmas. Might seem like a weird gift, but really useful ! By the way I rarely use starting fluid or ether. Usually use silicone spray. Works the same and I dont think its as hard on the engines. Just my personal POV.
 
Thank goodness you didnt blow up . I dont like ether in gas engines but sometimes you have to give em a snort
 
I came up on a guy disking one time that had a fire just getting going on a JD 4840 he did not have a fire extinguisher but luckily we did. Without it that tractor would have burned to the ground. Lesson learned I carry one on every tractor
 
Get a CO2 or halon extinguisher and will not have the mess. Halon is hard to come by but not harmful to engines. joe
 
SV,
I use starter fluid all the time on gas engines.
Looking back I think my mistake was I had the choke on and the starter fluid didn't evaporate. So I gave it another squirt then poof.
I only add starter fluid when I'm cranking, not before.
Brain fart for sure.
No major harm. I learned a good lesson.
Remove the filter, don't set the choke on, and know where the fire extinguisher is.
 
I had a similar adventure last summer. Hole in a fuel line I couldn't see so every time it started then died it was pumping gas onto the muffler. 4 extinguishers on the place and I am embarrassed to admit it but they hadn't been checked in so long none of them worked. I had to shovel dirt onto the fire to put it out. I bought new extinguishers that day.
 
The new starter fluid doesn't burn that well and will puddle given the opportunity. Then you get the results you just had. Happened to me about a month ago. Starting my Pettibone and can't get to carb so pulled the hose off the external air cleaner. Didn't realize the fluid was laying in the horizontal hose. It puffed back caught on fire and the fluid was dripping out of the hose spreading the fire. Since I have DOT numbers on my pickup I have a fire extinguisher handy. Thankfully.
 
(quoted from post at 18:53:30 01/12/22) I came up on a guy disking one time that had a fire just getting going on a JD 4840 he did not have a fire extinguisher but luckily we did. Without it that tractor would have burned to the ground. Lesson learned I carry one on every tractor
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Disking?
So he had loose dirt under his feet and stood there watching it burn???

Was on the interstate doing 70mph when the new alternator decided the bearings were not good enough.
It it wanted to locked up. The 454 kept going and the bearings caught on fire. When the serpentine belt started screaming, I pulled over.
Seen and smelled smoke so before opening the hood I gathered up a gallon of loose dirt at my feet.
Fire shot up to the hood and was out soon after.
 
i keep a fire extinguisher in plain sight, easily retrived in my shop. Was working on a Chevy II inline six and had the distributor cap off. I also had the open fuel line from the fuel pump near by..was in the overhauling process and getting things back together....for some reason I needed to roll the engine over which I did and how it happened I don't know but the cap lying adjacent to the dist casting, shot out a spark right across the pumped gas squirt from the fuel pump and it ignited big time.

You'd be surprised how camouflaged that extinguisher became.
 
I never use starting fluid, I use a primer bottle with 40-1 mix in it, the engines usually need some oil to improve compression. I've never had any kind of a fire using this.
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