I had a fire on a 75 ford LN 800, last week. The old ford had been sitting for at least 5 yrs, without being started. I put a new battery in it and 5 gal of new gas, and it started up ok. I had noticed some gas seeping out around the linkage shafts on the carb, wetting the manifold, but dismissed it, in my hurry to get it running. While sitting there warming up it caught the top of the motor on fire, I jumped down out of the cab, and tilted the Hood foreward, and then ran to the house for water and my son to help. by the time we got back with 5 gal of water and put it out, it had burned all the wiring off the firewall, and melted the holly carb. Now reading this post, it reminded me that I had a large dry chemical extinguisher under the seat, that I put in there 5 yr's ago.
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