>so apart from the preventive maintainenece, what's the best way to >handle a fire? i hope i'll be able to smell smoke/fuel, or maybe >some other driver will wave to me. what happens after i pull over? >i can't imagine that i'll be able to calmly open the hatch and >engine lid and spray my extinguisher around... everything will be a >mass of heat, smoke, and confusion, right? I have this nice new >extinguisher in the back of my van, but i haven't the slightest idea >how to handle a fire. any advice from someone who has handled this >before? If your Type 2 is watercooled, spray the extinguisher into the engine compartment from below, don't open the hatch... which then forms a chimney to funnel the fire into the van. If it's aircooled you can't do this, but opening the lid won't produce a chimney as the aircooling shrouds close the compartment off from below. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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