Well I hate to fess-up to these kind of things.....things that get put under the list of
"STUPID!"
But I learn from my list & always keep the list around!
Once I was working on "Bessie" my '90 here in the driveway. Had the 088 turbo off, was cleaning up things in & around valley pan area with lots ether & rags & scraper. Cloudy day so I had one those HF work lite with a 500wt bulb in it, lense got gone off it, had it hanging/sitting there really close, pointing kind'a down. I'm laying up across the radiator & engine, laying there grunting & cussing, head & face up over & close so I can see what I'm doing...... & kind'a close to the lite.
My wife was standing on a 5gal bucket leaned over talking & helping. I had grown a really nice, fuzzy, red beard, about 4"-5" long, needing a haircut really, really bad. And Carol was in a really, really nice mood......
Well either fumes everywhere, some had run down the oil drain hole inside/under the valleypan. When the worklite lit the either off there was a BIG
KERR-BOOM, flames shot up past my head, burned most of my beard off, eyelashes, eyebrows, hair..... Carol screamed, stumbled off the bucket, bumped/banged her head on the hood, tried to run for it!
When the smoke cleared, we settled down, took time to ck damage, the valley pan was pooched up around the intake, all wrinkled like an old style clothes rub-board, rubber grommet blown out, sort'a toasted!
Like I say, I keep my list of "STUPID" around.......and I won't go into Carol's mood change over the next few days.
& someday I'll tell you about my other crankcase explosion.....