heart stopping moment!

[fifegt4]

I finally got round to getting a new MOT on my faff yesterday and it passed with only an advisory on the back brakes which I knew were needing replaced.

So as soon is I got back I started ripping out the cat which was a pain in the arse on its own! I managed to depressure the air con system at the same time lol while the decat pipes been off I used some heat wrap from my work to lag it and a few jubilee clips to hold it on. I took the car for a test drive and while sitting at traffic lights in the middle of traffic loads of smoke started to pour out of all the vents in the bonnet  thats when my heart stopped and I thought oh crap the heat wraps on fire!

I opened the bonnet and it just seemed to be either excess gasket compound or maybe a coating from the wrap and one of the jubilee clips has melted the coating of it lol but thankfully no fire.

[paul_gt4]

Heat wrap will smoke for a while, I've had the same worry a long time ago when i heat wrapped a DP and front section of the exhaust on a previous car, it will go away after you get a few good miles on the clock.

[fifegt4]

It seemed to have died down by the I got home it was the initail shock of the smoke. I think i'll be wripping the air con out seen as I removed one of the pipes and depressurised it the quick way, which i would not recommend.

[paul_gt4]

ya get a wee scare with it blowing back and the whoosh of it depressurising lol

[fifegt4]

You could say that paul I nearly wet myself. I dont know why I wasn't expecting it to do that if I'd thought about it I wouldn't have done it but I was just getting to the point where the pipe was in the road so it was coming off not matter what lol

[paul_gt4]

ah well its better all pulled out, not as if we need air con over here

[flyingtele]

can be risky depressurizing the air con like that, if that stuff gets in your eyes it can make you permanently blind

[Frikkin Evil]

I bet your heart was in your mouth!

Nice 1 on the MOT... it always amazes me with these old cars.

[fifegt4]

can be risky depressurizing the air con like that, if that stuff gets in your eyes it can make you permanently blind

???Thankfully I didnt know that at the time lol

Cheers FrikkinEvil I know what you mean the guy who's done my MOT's always comments on how clean it is underneath for a older car.

[Coyoteboy]

yup - heat wrap smokes like mad - I had similar scary moments when I wapped mine (only I wrapped mine from the manifold back to the backbox - it was like the red arrows had flown under the car!).

[peterp1per]

can be risky depressurizing the air con like that, if that stuff gets in your eyes it can make you permanently blind

not to mention illegal 

releasing refrigerant in the atmosphere could land you quite a hefty fine if you are caught...you naughty fella 

[fifegt4]

Ooops  shhh! dont tell anyone