My truck caught on fire!!

[edgeddiesel]

Saturday night I was at a buddies house and prior to parking my truck I had gotten on the brakes really hard. Well after that the Abs light came on and then when I cut it off and got out I heard a humming noise that sounded like small motor running coming from around the front drivers side of the engine compartment. I said to myself that isn't normal but i figured it may go off. I came back ab 15 min later and whatever it was was still running and I also cranked the truck to see if the problem had reset but it hadnt and the abs light was still coming on. I started to try to find and pull the fuse then but unfortunately i didn't. It sat for about another hour until we got ready to go to the store. I opened the door and smoke came rolling out of the cab and it smelled like wires burning something awful. I looked and the lights on the instrument panel were on as if the key were in it turned to the on position and the heater fan was getting power and blowing air (I think that is how the smoke got in the cab). I then popped the hood and seen smoke coming up from around the front of the driver side battery area. We got it out and have been looking but have yet to find what actually burned. BTW the little silver thing behind the driver side headlight with hard hoses coming out of the top was warm to the touch after sitting for an hour or more. The next morning I hooked the batts back up and the instrument lights and stuff are still coming on by themselves. I then cranked the truck and it started so I drove it. Also the speedometer doesn't work, and Holding the accelorator to the floor it wouldn't get over what felt like about 55 or 60... so please help, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

[bigwhite7.3stroker]

Holy Crap man glad you got it out someone should be along soon to help you sort this out.

Good Luck on the fix

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Sounds like it was something with the ABS. There are some solenoids in there. Hopefully a tech will pop in.

[bfloyd4445]

[mudrunninpig]

Sorry to hear. I lost my truck to a fire in April.. 22,000 dollars worth of damage. I hope you can trace the problem and get it fixed. good luck.

[BlackPearlF250]

holy moly! you should sue ford and burn your pants real quick saying you caught fire with it lol. maybe you can roll around in a nice new 2008 superduty

[edgeddiesel]

Yeah no kiddin it sucks.... and this isn't the first vehicle i had burn. I had gotten a 1986 CJ7 for a graduation present in 03 completely restored and it backfired through the carb and burned completely up bad luck I guess... And the ironic thing is im a firefighter

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BWAHAHAHAHA that's funny right there.

Not laughing at you it's just you being a fire fighter and having fires, it's just funny...

[orng1]

Originally Posted by edgeddiesel

Yeah no kiddin it sucks.... and this isn't the first vehicle i had burn. I had gotten a 1986 CJ7 for a graduation present in 03 completely restored and it backfired through the carb and burned completely up bad luck I guess... And the ironic thing is im a firefighter

The fires are catching back up to you for killing their family, I would have probably let it smoke more then well you know. Wait you do have insurance right? There will already ba a lot of damage to the harness and that can add up. It's really hard to say that you'd let it burn but it's easy to think it.

Good luck, first try to figure out what caused it. no sense in replacing all the parts to see them melt again.

['strokeThis_'07]

Wow. My buddys 04 Ford caught fire. Went by-by. Never did hear what caused it though...