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washer fluid = fireball. Tell your friends - JB3 - 03-19-2011
Apparently no one I know was aware that the principle non freezing agent in a lot of washer fluid is alcohol. I have been asking around after a friend who borrowed my van to move some boxes poured most of a bottle of washer fluid on a burning alternator and created a 4 foot fireball.
The subsequent explosion of flame burned a lot of his hair, but also caught the rest of the engine of fire, it was only by blind luck that the whole van wasn't burned to the ground. Still a lot of fire damage though.
He also told me that the fireman in one of the trucks that showed up wasn't aware of that either. They both seemed to think that its blueness was more like blue gatorade, and cool and refreshing.
RE: washer fluid = fireball. Tell your friends - garage - 03-19-2011
(03-19-2011, 11:24 AM)dropnosky Apparently no one I know was aware that the principle non freezing agent in a lot of washer fluid is alcohol. I have been asking around after a friend who borrowed my van to move some boxes poured most of a bottle of washer fluid on a burning alternator and created a 4 foot fireball.
The subsequent explosion of flame burned a lot of his hair, but also caught the rest of the engine of fire, it was only by blind luck that the whole van wasn't burned to the ground. Still a lot of fire damage though.
He also told me that the fireman in one of the trucks that showed up wasn't aware of that either. They both seemed to think that its blueness was more like blue gatorade, and cool and refreshing.
This happened to your Astro??
RE: washer fluid = fireball. Tell your friends - 300SD81 - 03-19-2011
Isn't that the reason people use washer fluid for water/methanol injection?
RE: washer fluid = fireball. Tell your friends - 300D50 - 03-19-2011
Oh god...
How bad's the damage?
Will the Benz go in sooner now that the gasser gave up the ghost?
Can you get more than it's worth from the insurance co? :p (I jest, I jest...)
RE: washer fluid = fireball. Tell your friends - ForcedInduction - 03-19-2011
(03-19-2011, 02:11 PM)300SD81 Isn't that the reason people use washer fluid for water/methanol injection?
The exact reason its used. -20*f washer is 35% methanol.