Tough border crossing today, Tuesday
This morning I saw this from the Detroit river where we were fishing on my boat (caught 7 nice walleyes). A pickup pulling a trailer burned on the Ambassador Bridge crossing over the river from Det...
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RAS43 wrote:
I have to say that after 44+ years as a fleet mechanic I have not seen a turbo catch fire. There isn't anything to burn except aluminum if something else got it hot enough. It could have been the oil line to the turbo or a fuel line breaking and spraying over the engine and that caused a fire. Or an electrical short. Just saying.
But if it was an automatic and overheated the tranny, the boiling fluid spewing out the dipstick tube and onto the exhaust would light it up pronto!
I've seen several of those happen.
