Posted by LaurenceA on November 30, 2014 at 19:46:02 from (107.147.15.100):
Had quite a scare yesterday afternoon just after starting our 1971 IH656 gas tractor in the barn. Put it in reverse to back it out of the barn and flames just shot up several feet on both sides of the hood. I immediately jumped off and got the heck out of there. Fortunately it slowly backed out of the barn on its own. Still burning as it continued backing it left a fire burning on the gravel floor of the barn below where the tractor was parked and a 50 foot line of burning gravel to where it finally stalled inches from the edge of a wooded ravine. As soon as it stalled the fire on the tractor weakened almost immediately The odd thing about it is the line of fire on the gravel lasted longer and produced black smoke as if oil was mixed with the gas and burned for about 5 minutes. Luckily we got the fires out fairly quickly. Oddly, it appears that the only fire damage was to a few wires on the left side of the engine, not on the fuel line-carb side. No signs of leaking fuel line anywhere between the bottom of the gas tank and carb but haven't taken the hood off yet and haven't looked it over thoroughly. Just restored the gas tank last summer- basically rust inside a few holes on top where mouse nests rusted thru, soldered new steel patches then capped with high heat epoxy just to be safe, We've used it several times since. Someone misplaced the fuel tank lid so I temporarily fashioned one out of uncoated light gauge aluminum flashing loosely crimped over the tank neck above the hood just before starting it yesterday. Could electrolosis between the alum. and steel have caused the fire? It didn't even have time to warm up and hadn't been driven in over a month.
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