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Why do Bobcats catch fire?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tazza" data-source="post: 2120" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>As the topic states, why do these machines actually catch fire?</p><p>I bought one that had an engine bay fire about 9 months ago, there was a 863 there that had cooked too, there is another 743 at the yard that has also caught fire. There was a new user that had one that was burnt too.</p><p>Is there any reason for this to happen? or is it just plain old bad luck?</p><p>From what i have seen in the ones that cooked, they appear to have never been cleaned, masses of oil/dirt in the engine bay that once on fire would fuel the fire quite well. Mine had a nice big copper weld on the chassis just under the engine, but i don't know if this was the cause of the fire or just the wire melting during the fire and eventually shorting out.</p><p>The reason i ask, i don't want this to happen to any of my machines. I do try and keep my machines as cleen as i can, there is always a bit of dirt around but never caked up masses. I also try to keep them leak free (not always possible unfortunatly...).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tazza, post: 2120, member: 82"] As the topic states, why do these machines actually catch fire? I bought one that had an engine bay fire about 9 months ago, there was a 863 there that had cooked too, there is another 743 at the yard that has also caught fire. There was a new user that had one that was burnt too. Is there any reason for this to happen? or is it just plain old bad luck? From what i have seen in the ones that cooked, they appear to have never been cleaned, masses of oil/dirt in the engine bay that once on fire would fuel the fire quite well. Mine had a nice big copper weld on the chassis just under the engine, but i don't know if this was the cause of the fire or just the wire melting during the fire and eventually shorting out. The reason i ask, i don't want this to happen to any of my machines. I do try and keep my machines as cleen as i can, there is always a bit of dirt around but never caked up masses. I also try to keep them leak free (not always possible unfortunatly...). [/QUOTE]
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