Tonyrodz's Tahoe Build Thread

[sumo]

Oh yea atf is flammable. I was once torching a exhaust stud, banged it out and it bounced into a coolant bucket filled with atf. It has a higher ignition point but a red hot stud was able to make it ignite. Once it catches fire, it goes wild. What a gnarly fire.

 

[HiHoeSilver]

Just for the sake of argument on this, having a high flashpoint and being flammable are not the same thing. ATF is not flammable. It does, however, obviously have a flash point at which it will burn, as will pretty much anything.

Hair spray is flammable, gasoline is flammable, Diaminocyclohexane is flammable. Your ATF...not flammable.

 

[95escahoe]

I stand corrected. You're right, pretty much anything will burn under the right conditions. I just read that even antifreeze mixed 50/50 will burn when vaporized by a hot 1000 degree manifold.
"Next tested was automatic transmission fluid. In the early 1990s General Motors experienced numerous fires in its full-sized trucks. Fires usually did not occur in normal usage, but under heavy loads, such as pulling trailers up hills, some transmissions expelled their fluid out onto hot exhaust components and caused fires. As a result, General Motors mailed new dipsticks to owners of these trucks. The new dipsticks had a plastic locking device designed to prevent the internal transmission fluid pressure from ejecting fluid up the dipstick tube and onto the right hand exhaust manifold directly below. Flammability of automatic transmission fluid was demonstrated in the tests by spraying transmission fluid onto the steel tubing, heated to approximately 1,000°F. The transmission fluid immediately flashed."
Sorry we jacked your thread Tony!

Always wondered why the tranny dipstick on my previous OBS Tahoe had the lock on the end never saw another dipstick like it


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[Rocket Man]

Just for the sake of argument on this, having a high flashpoint and being flammable are not the same thing. ATF is not flammable. It does, however, obviously have a flash point at which it will burn, as will pretty much anything.

Hair spray is flammable, gasoline is flammable, Diaminocyclohexane is flammable. Your ATF...not flammable.

Correct, it's combustible but not flammable. I found out that difference in my research.

 

[SirReal63]

Physical size is important too, a block of wood is not flammable but powedered wood is. A chunk of steel is not flammable but steel wool is. Reduce rrhe size of ATF and it burns easier.

 

[Tonyrodz]

It's just another of Tony's mechanics that don't know sh*t about sh*t lol. Damn Tony, where do you find these guys?

So true. There are alot of ********* around here. Im just lucky enough to find them all!

 

[Rocket Man]

So true. There are alot of ********* around here. Im just lucky enough to find them all!

Everybody has to be good at something.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Everybody has to be good at something.

They'r pretty damn good then.

 

[HiHoeSilver]

They'r pretty damn good then.

I think he meant you're good......




At finding them.

 

[Tonyrodz]

I think he meant you're good......




At finding them.

Lol. Too bad I'm not good at finding gold instead.