Long black hairs coming out exhaust

[Big Craigie]

Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my exhaust
pipe. I can pull out whole chunks of them, so if Elvira Mistress of the Dark
is stuck inside my engine she can't have much left. Anyway, it is a M reg
Fiesta 1.6 Java 16 valve Zetec. Any advice would be welcome.

Cheers

[Mungo \two sheds\ Toadfoot]

Big Craigie wrote:
> Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my
> exhaust pipe. I can pull out whole chunks of them, so if Elvira
> Mistress of the Dark is stuck inside my engine she can't have much
> left. Anyway, it is a M reg Fiesta 1.6 Java 16 valve Zetec. Any
> advice would be welcome.
>
> Cheers

Have you lost a cat recently?

Si

[JB]

"Big Craigie" <bigyourclothescraigie13@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my exhaust
> pipe. I can pull out whole chunks of them, so if Elvira Mistress of the
Dark
> is stuck inside my engine she can't have much left. Anyway, it is a M reg
> Fiesta 1.6 Java 16 valve Zetec. Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
Backbox knackered!

JB

[Guy King]

The message <ckk5sq$6op$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>
from "Big Craigie" <bigyourclothescraigie13@yahoo.co.uk> contains these words:

> Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my exhaust
> pipe.

It's the sound absorbant wadding with which the box is stuffed. Or in
your case used to be.

You can either ignore it or replace the box, but beware in case it
manages (unlikely) to block the pipe 'cos then you'll stop.

--
Skipweasel.
Being superstitious brings bad luck

[Rich Russell]

Guy King <guy.king@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3130303034323739416DABA964@zetnet.co.uk>...
> The message <ckk5sq$6op$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>
> from "Big Craigie" <bigyourclothescraigie13@yahoo.co.uk> contains these words:
>
> > Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my exhaust
> > pipe.
>
> It's the sound absorbant wadding with which the box is stuffed. Or in
> your case used to be.
>
> You can either ignore it or replace the box, but beware in case it
> manages (unlikely) to block the pipe 'cos then you'll stop.

You might find one day the engine is really down on power, then
there's a bang, and suddenly it's a lot more lively and free revving,
but the exhaust noise is boy-racery. That's what happened on my
sister-in-law's Escort when it spat out the entire contents of the
silencer. Huge tangle of rock-wool type stuff trailing along behind
the car.

Time for a new silencer....

Rich.

[DB.]

Big Craigie wrote:
> Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my
> exhaust pipe. I can pull out whole chunks of them, so if Elvira
> Mistress of the Dark is stuck inside my engine she can't have much
> left. Anyway, it is a M reg Fiesta 1.6 Java 16 valve Zetec. Any
> advice would be welcome.
>
> Cheers


The cab of my Transit is full of long black hairs - I blame it on my
Labrador. I've not noticed them coming out of my exhaust, though!
I've posted here recently about the complete failure of my heater
blower, and I seriously wonder if that might be caused by her hairs,
which I pick up by the handful whenever I remember to clean out the cab.

--
DB.

[Big Craigie]

"Rich Russell" <richrussell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Guy King <guy.king@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > The message <ckk5sq$6op$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>
> > from "Big Craigie" <bigyourclothescraigie13@yahoo.co.uk> contains these
words:
> >
> > > Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my
exhaust
> > > pipe.
> >
> > It's the sound absorbant wadding with which the box is stuffed. Or in
> > your case used to be.
> >
> > You can either ignore it or replace the box, but beware in case it
> > manages (unlikely) to block the pipe 'cos then you'll stop.
>
> You might find one day the engine is really down on power, then
> there's a bang, and suddenly it's a lot more lively and free revving,
> but the exhaust noise is boy-racery. That's what happened on my
> sister-in-law's Escort when it spat out the entire contents of the
> silencer. Huge tangle of rock-wool type stuff trailing along behind
> the car.
>
> Time for a new silencer....
>
> Rich.
Any recommendations from anyone. I'm in West Lothian, Central Scotlandish.

Big Craigie
ps I wish I'd kept all the hair as I could have made a nice wig (for the
weekends)

[Peter Hill]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:04:28 +0100, "DB." <dbircumshaw@btinternet.com>
wrote:

>Big Craigie wrote:
>> Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my
>> exhaust pipe. I can pull out whole chunks of them, so if Elvira
>> Mistress of the Dark is stuck inside my engine she can't have much
>> left. Anyway, it is a M reg Fiesta 1.6 Java 16 valve Zetec. Any
>> advice would be welcome.
>>
>> Cheers
>
>
> The cab of my Transit is full of long black hairs - I blame it on my
>Labrador. I've not noticed them coming out of my exhaust, though!
> I've posted here recently about the complete failure of my heater
>blower, and I seriously wonder if that might be caused by her hairs,
>which I pick up by the handful whenever I remember to clean out the cab.

Friend of mine had a long haired Alsatian. He has a gas fire with
back boiler that pulls air in from the room at a low level. They were
having some problems with it as the flames in the open fronted gas
fire didn't go up the flue and made the room smell. So they called
out BG. It instantly got a nice big red "DO NOT USE" sticker stuck on
it. The boiler heat exchanger and part of the flue was solid with
soot. The gauze filter on the burner's primary air inlet had a thick
felt mat of dog hair on it. No primary air, poor gas mixing and
burning = coke. If left any longer it could have killed them. They
hadn't had it serviced in 10 years.

--
Peter Hill
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Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!

[Peter Hill]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:15:28 +0100, "Big Craigie"
<bigyourclothescraigie13@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Rich Russell" <richrussell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:d1ddc5d.0410132351.78691561@posting.google.co m...
>> Guy King <guy.king@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:<3130303034323739416DABA964@zetnet.co.uk>...
>> > The message <ckk5sq$6op$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>
>> > from "Big Craigie" <bigyourclothescraigie13@yahoo.co.uk> contains these
>words:
>> >
>> > > Over the last month I've found long black hairs coming out of my
>exhaust
>> > > pipe.
>> >
>> > It's the sound absorbant wadding with which the box is stuffed. Or in
>> > your case used to be.
>> >
>> > You can either ignore it or replace the box, but beware in case it
>> > manages (unlikely) to block the pipe 'cos then you'll stop.
>>
>> You might find one day the engine is really down on power, then
>> there's a bang, and suddenly it's a lot more lively and free revving,
>> but the exhaust noise is boy-racery. That's what happened on my
>> sister-in-law's Escort when it spat out the entire contents of the
>> silencer. Huge tangle of rock-wool type stuff trailing along behind
>> the car.
>>
>> Time for a new silencer....
>>
>> Rich.
>Any recommendations from anyone. I'm in West Lothian, Central Scotlandish.
>
>Big Craigie
> ps I wish I'd kept all the hair as I could have made a nice wig (for the
>weekends)

It's usually fiberglass.

--
Peter Hill
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Can of worms - what every fisherman wants.
Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!

[Guy King]

The message <9lvtm05golm9pp23c53vr1c5bsa7gem5db@4ax.com>
from Peter Hill <peter.usenet1@nospam.demon.co.uk> contains these words:

> No primary air, poor gas mixing and
> burning = coke. If left any longer it could have killed them. They
> hadn't had it serviced in 10 years.

Ours can get like that in a couple of year even without a dog and with a
high-level wall mounted boiler.

--
Skipweasel.
Being superstitious brings bad luck