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04-21-2008, 08:35 PM #1
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Classifieds 2008 Jeep Rubicon Burn't to the ground
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Hello all, I work for a large electric utility company and we bought 3 Jeep Rubicon 4 door vehicles to maintain our Hi Lines. Friday we had 1 burn to the ground. The driver stated that it appeared that the fire started by the trans skid plate. We put one of the other vehicles on a lift today and what we found was a lot of sticks and brush on top of the skid plate by the exhaust, in fact one of the sticks we pulled out had char marks on it from what I would assume was laying on the right side pipe that crosses over to the left side of the vehicle. Another thing that I noticed was the fuel lines leave the fuel tank and cross right on top of the exhaust and appear to travel up to the engine on top of the transmission. If a fire did break out due to debris by the exhaust the flames would be directly under the plastic fuel lines. Has anyone seen this before? These are bone stock and just went into service within 3 months. Thanks in advance.
04-21-2008, 08:35 PM #1
Aerocoupe
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Classifieds 2008 Jeep Rubicon Burn't to the ground
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Hello all, I work for a large electric utility company and we bought 3 Jeep Rubicon 4 door vehicles to maintain our Hi Lines. Friday we had 1 burn to the ground. The driver stated that it appeared that the fire started by the trans skid plate. We put one of the other vehicles on a lift today and what we found was a lot of sticks and brush on top of the skid plate by the exhaust, in fact one of the sticks we pulled out had char marks on it from what I would assume was laying on the right side pipe that crosses over to the left side of the vehicle. Another thing that I noticed was the fuel lines leave the fuel tank and cross right on top of the exhaust and appear to travel up to the engine on top of the transmission. If a fire did break out due to debris by the exhaust the flames would be directly under the plastic fuel lines. Has anyone seen this before? These are bone stock and just went into service within 3 months. Thanks in advance.
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