Ford in the 70's and early 80's used an alternator that had a harness attached to the alternator that plugged into the car's wiring harness. Those tended to burn, we had two of them in about 15 years, in both cases we got it put out before it became fully involved. My brother was driving a VW bug that I rebuilt when I was about 19, first time I ever did anything like that by myself, let's say there may of been some things done or not done that I wouldn't do anymore. Maybe one of the things I didn't do was lock washers on the carburetor. He complained it was running poorly (I can't use the EXACT words he used as that language isn't allowed in this forum) and wouldn't idle, I looked at it and the carburetor was loose and wobbling around on the manifold. Of course I tightened it up, heck I may of even got some lock washers out of the box of spare parts to put on it. About a week later it caught fire. In a moment of panic he grabbed his new AM/FM/Cassette deck right out of the dashboard and scooped his candy bars out of the glove box and was standing there in the middle of the road holding his radio and his candy bars watching his car burn up. Before to long a few guys come up on him, his radio and his candy bars and his burning car and ask "What's Up?" MY brother explains his car is on fire would they have a fire extinguisher? Their reply nope- but we got BEER! they shook up cans of beer and sprayed them on the engine. Three cans of beer put out the fire (mostly) leaving exactly three cans of beer for three people, hmm wonder where this is going? Well they were about 1/2 done with their beer when someone with a real fire extinguisher shows up and doused it for good measure. Wish they had't used the fire extinguisher as that dry chemical stuff was a pain to clean up. The cause of the fire, the fuel inlet pulled out of the carburetor, maybe from flopping around loose on the manifold for a week or so and of course it kept pumping gas on the engine until it stopped running.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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