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76 F-250 4x4 camper special with 390 4v, C6 and factory electrinic ignition, pretty much stock condition truck. Ok, so I just backed our camp trailer up into it's spot and got out to unhitch it from the truck, about the time I walk around the back of the truck I here a POP! and the truck dies. So I jump in the cab and try to restart, it cranks fine but no fire so I get out and open the hood and 
FIRE!!!
. the damn dizzy is on fire and so is the rubber piece of the fuel hose that the filter is connected to ( I know, my bad for not using steel line, will be changed out imediatly). I get the fire out before it has a chance to do any real damage but now I am trying to figure out just what the hell just happened. The wire harness between the dizz and the plug is history and it looks like thats where the fire started. Inside the dizz looks fine, accept a crack in the plastic around the pickup coil but no indication of any shorts or burning inside the dizzyand I cant find any fuel leaks anywhere 
Any thoughts to what may have happened??
FIRE!!!. the damn dizzy is on fire and so is the rubber piece of the fuel hose that the filter is connected to ( I know, my bad for not using steel line, will be changed out imediatly). I get the fire out before it has a chance to do any real damage but now I am trying to figure out just what the hell just happened. The wire harness between the dizz and the plug is history and it looks like thats where the fire started. Inside the dizz looks fine, accept a crack in the plastic around the pickup coil but no indication of any shorts or burning inside the dizzyand I cant find any fuel leaks anywhere Any thoughts to what may have happened??
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Are you sure that hose didn't spring a leak and spray a little gas on the dizzy? WAG. There will be a short hose right off the carb connecting to the hard line. If its old it could have done this.
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The fuel hose isn't very old, maybe 2 years or so but thats got to be where it came from. I'm going to just change everything out to steel line and rebuild the dizz and be done with it
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All better now, turns out it was a fuel leak. The inline fuel filter had a pin hole in it, corrossion I guess. Strange because the filter wasn't really that old. Could have just been a faulty filter I guess. Hose was still good but I changed everything out to steel line, all but two short pieces on either end of the new filter. Still had an old dizz with new guts floating around the shop so I just had to swap the pickup and harness around, replace three plug wires with some old ones I had laying around and the old girl fired right up. I'll still have to replace the cap and get a new set of wires but thats about it. Could have been a whole lot worse. That's exactly why I carry a fire extinguiser it my truck.
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