Another Ford on Fire!

[AWE Daniel]

So my brother calls me twice while I was in class last night, so I figured it was important. Turns out his Crown Vic caught fire! He was driving and he saw his white paint start to turn brown in one spot on the hood, and he could smell something so he pulled over and the rubber boot the covers the wire on top of the Alternator was on fire! Now the crown vics have a plastic intake manifold, so it melted a little bit of that as well. The alternator was from the old parts car we had her at the house awhile back. He had a Napa one go bad and while he waited for that to get replaced for free he put in the parts car one, and never got around to swapping it back in. So we think something went wrong in that old Alt. Anyways here are some pics. Ill have to get pics of the brown spot on the hood later.

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http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r74/cadillac360/102_0316.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r74/cadillac360/102_0315.jpg

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[SmokedRam]

I have had two Fords catch on fire with me...my 77 F250 was my fault...I was young and dumb and used solid core wire as my hot wire to my radio and routed it under the hood...

The second was a starter...that was not fun at all.

[UnderCover]

Ouch. My Avenger caught on fire back in the day. My ball joint let go doing about 35 mph. The momentum the car had pushed the control arm back as far as it went. When they were taking it down off the tow truck, something shifted, and it pinched and shorted out a power wire to my lighting system. That wasn't fun. 6 weeks with no car. But it all got repaired good as new!

[Storm Rider]

Sorry to hear about your brother's car. Hope you can help him get it right.

[ramthis9501]

Wow that sucks, my uncles old Ford ranger caught fire just driving down the road before. Guess that's what you get for buying a Ford lol