Sorry to hear about it, bro. Glad to hear you are ok


PS
Just in case start looking to receipts for all additional parts on the truck. My last deal with insurance company was 3 month long and tons of nerves to get paid for stuff I had insured just 4 month prior (all of the addons were included into insurance policy line by line)

 

I've never seen a PSD roll that much coal before.



To the OP I hope you get a new truck soon. It sucks you lost your current truck however at least nobody was hurt.

My dad carries a fire ext in his truck, I think I'll have to get one for mine too.

 

Prop open the hood and look at all the plastic, rubber, oil and fuel. The composition of a tire is oil and carbon black, we all know how well they accelerate and burn.

 

I'd show those pics to the insurance company so they had it for the record..although it would be hard to dispute that there was a fire..I know my company loves photo's though.

 

Sad, sad day. I'm glad noone was hurt or other property was damaged. Godspeed on getting into another truck fast.

 

Any idea what caused the fire? Fuel leak, electrical, oil on a hot manifold?

My neighbor has a 6.0l around the same year, luckily 2 houses down.

 

Sorry to hear about the truck that sucks! I doubt it had anything to do with heat if it sat for 5 1/2 hours it almost has to be electrical or you have a bad enemy or some hoodlum naighbor kids.

 

This thread makes me cringe.

I am glad no one was hurt. I also feel pretty bad for your loss of the truck.

It will be very interesting to hear what the outcome is. Did you have anything added to the truck by any chance? If it started from the right side battery (theoretically) - did you have anything added off the battery for power? And is the "right side" the passenger side or driver side?

I tapped my drivers side battery for high-current power to my Ham radio and everything else I run on 12v. There is a 50 amp breaker right at the battery for safety. Then where the cable splits off under the rear seat where I have 20 amp fueses on each line. Under the dash I have a 5 or 10 amp line tapped off the main 50 amp line going to switches on the dash. In a nutshell, everything is fused and the whole mess is protected right at the battery with the breaker. The cable is also wrapped in a plastic sheath from the breaker all the way through the firewall to where the cable goes in to the floorboard channel with the factory wiring. The only ways it could short is if something shorted the battery (which the + side has the cap) or if something wore through to the wires through the sheath and the jacket on the wire.

Let us know the progress. As much as it hurts to see it I am sure we can all learn from it - the best benefit to FTE and what makes it such a great site. I think I might just go out and get a fire extinguisher, or a couple, to keep in my truck.

 

wow subscribed sucks that you lost your truck

 

Like others have said we're glad no one was hurt and that you did park it further away from your house than normal.
When its all said and done may be we can all get together and find you a replacement truck!!

 

Its great seeing all of the people stop to see if everything is alright in this video (sarcasm).......good ole human compassion.

 

I had nightmares when I first saw that one....

 

Is "kdug42" a member of FTE?

Y'know, I don't feel sorry for the guy at all that just walked away with a camera and shot photos of his rig on fire.

Once he opened the hood, revealing a fire, his job was not to shoot photos. His job was to at least attempt to extinguish the fire.

Even lacking a proper extinguisher, a couple of hand-fulls of dirt, judiciously thrown early-on, in the right spot, might well have put the fire out. If it was a fuel leak, the dirt might have soaked it up enough to put it out.

If this had happened to me, I would have no record of it at all, as I would have been shoveling dirt onto the fire until well-after the fire department had already arrived.

Taking movies! What a fool!

Feel sorry for him? Naaaaaaaah........

Pop

 

man, this is my worst nightmare. I live outside the fire protection boundaries and am on my own is anything catches on fire.

I have a couple of irrigation ponds and a plenty of pumps and hose but this time of year the ponds are frozen and the pumps are dry........I'd be left shoveling snow trying to put it out, or burying it in manure with the tractor trying to starve it for air.

 

Hey pop. He had a garden hose and was trying. His wife/ gf was the one taking pictures, video. Reading comprehension? Thanks for giving us a heads up on fire fighting. Bet if a tire blew out and injured the guy you would have a totally different story to tell or advise for that right?