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[englishowner]

Hi all. Just gone out to start my car (cold and frosty morning) and there was a tremendous bang and smoke from under the hood! On exploration (no pun intended) I found my airbox lid blown to bits. It did start afterwards but I didn't like the mess. Any clues?

 

[Willard]

hmmm....how cold are we talking about here?

 

[billz260]

Did the truck start up then the BANG happened?

I am totally guessing here but maybe ice formed and some how sealed all the vent holes in the air box. The engine ran just long enough to create a large vacume, and the box was fragile enough due to the cold that it imploded?

WIERD.

 

[englishowner]

Apparently it reached about -5 cel. It blew on the starter before firing up, scary I can tell you! I spent the day glueing and taping the thing back together until I can get a replacement. It run OK today though.

 

[DeRocha]

Are you running Gasoline or LP gas? Several UK members that have converted to LP gas have reported various backfires (rare) that have caused various results such as yours.

 

[englishowner]

LPG. You have to be the Queen or some member of the elite to afford to run on gas over here, it's just been raised to £1 a litre which equates to around 9 dollars a gallon!!!

 

[DeRocha]

LPG. You have to be the Queen or some member of the elite to afford to run on gas over here, it's just been raised to £1 a litre which equates to around 9 dollars a gallon!!!

I assumed as such.. just didn't want the rest of the members in this thread thinking this problem was common in gasoline engines.