Bad Puppy post mortem

[Kent McLean]

I had a chance to talk with Michael, who was driving "Bad Puppy" when 
she caught fire.  He smelled smoke and pulled to the side of the road. 
The smoke was coming from under the hood, from the plastic (plenum 
cover) next to the fuse box.  Michael thought the rear defroster caused 
the fire, since he had just turned the defroster on a few minutes 
earlier, he'd never used the defroster before, and the car hard been 
running fine for a new weeks.

After the fire, he and a friend had a chance to checked it out. The fire 
seemed to be centered under the plastic plenum cover.  His new/final 
guess is that the heater blower motor was the cause. The bearing hadn't 
been making noises, but that's what is electrical and obvious under the 
plenum cover. Since the car had electrical issues (e.g., 2 year old 
radio wasn't working) under the dash, it could have been something else. 
But the best guess is an electrical short under the plenum or dash.

He also said, the fuel lines were fine, so they weren't the cause.

HTH you make the effort to double check things when you have an 
electrical issue under the dash or plenum.

--
Kent
'94 100 S Avant
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" is no more


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