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This past weekend was a time I was thankful for a fire extinguisher in my truck
During a high speed run through some whoop sections on a trail we blew out the passenger front king bumpstop which sprayed its shock fluid onto a super hot header which started a small fire in our engine bay. We were super fortunate to see and identify the fire quickly which was lucky to be easily accessible from the inside of the fender well. Ended up using the entire H3R Maxout extinguisher because the shock fluid kept re-igniting from the hot exhaust. Which the powder from the canister got everywhere (see photos). Once the fire was put out we opened up the engine bay and stuffed snow in the area of the fire to cool down all surfaces and to snuff out any chance of a re-ignite.
*Theres no damage to anything in the engine bay from the fire, only damage is a blown out bumpstop. Which is super lucky
I was thankful I was prepared with the proper fire suppression equipment to put out a decent sized fire, and also I had a group of friends on our trail ride who rushed over and helped in every capacity with their fire extinguishers as well.
PLEASE... be prepared in your vehicle with good fire suppression equipment. Its an absolute must even if your doing light wheeling or even just putsing around town!
*Photos show the mess of the dry-chem powder after the fire occured. The fire was physically on the CAT of the downpipe on the passenger side (You can see the dark spot of the where the fire was)
During a high speed run through some whoop sections on a trail we blew out the passenger front king bumpstop which sprayed its shock fluid onto a super hot header which started a small fire in our engine bay. We were super fortunate to see and identify the fire quickly which was lucky to be easily accessible from the inside of the fender well. Ended up using the entire H3R Maxout extinguisher because the shock fluid kept re-igniting from the hot exhaust. Which the powder from the canister got everywhere (see photos). Once the fire was put out we opened up the engine bay and stuffed snow in the area of the fire to cool down all surfaces and to snuff out any chance of a re-ignite.
*Theres no damage to anything in the engine bay from the fire, only damage is a blown out bumpstop. Which is super lucky
I was thankful I was prepared with the proper fire suppression equipment to put out a decent sized fire, and also I had a group of friends on our trail ride who rushed over and helped in every capacity with their fire extinguishers as well.
PLEASE... be prepared in your vehicle with good fire suppression equipment. Its an absolute must even if your doing light wheeling or even just putsing around town!
*Photos show the mess of the dry-chem powder after the fire occured. The fire was physically on the CAT of the downpipe on the passenger side (You can see the dark spot of the where the fire was)