"Tom Buese" <tombuese@COMCAST.NET> said: > Great! > I was wondering how to do that in my Westy which has all my stuff > above the engine when on trips. Maybe we should all mount > extinguishers on the sides of our vanagons next to the vents-could > look kinda trick & you could simply just pull the pin & handle w/o > having to get the extinguisher out???? grin If you really wanted to it would not be very hard to do -- plumb some piping into the engine compartment, connect to an extinguisher located maybe under the back seat, run a pull cable up to the drivers area -- maybe also a fire detector in the engine compartment to sound an alarm. All easy enough to do, and then you have an alarm system and fire suppression system just like an aircraft engine. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL |
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