Preventing Fire And Explosion - Vetus D-LINE VD4.120 Operation Manual

1 Safety measures
F
ire risk
• Do not smoke if refuelling.
• Avoid spilling fuel on hot surfaces. Spilled
fuel must be cleaned up immediately.
• Do not use petrol or diesel to clean compo-
nents but make use of good quality, non-in-
flammable, non-poisonous solvents that
are available from dealers.
• Always be alert to possible fuel or oil leak-
age!
If you discover a leak, take counter-meas-
ures immediately. If fuel or oil is spilled on
a hot engine, fire can break out. This can
cause physical injury or damage to the
equipment.
!
• Do not fill the fuel tank while the engine is
running!
Only refuel with the engine stopped.
• Never put flammable materials in the vicin-
ity of the engine!
• Keep the engine and engine compartment
clean!
Remove all inflammable materials such as
fuel, oil and other litter before it builds up
in the vicinity of the engine.

Preventing fire and explosion

• Connecting (emergency) extra starting bat-
tery
Proceed as follows when an extra starting
battery is used to jump start the engine:
- First connect the positive lead
- Lastly connect the earth cable (negative
pole) to the engine block
If this cable is connected in error to the
negative pole of the engine battery, a
spark can occur. The result of this could
be that explosive gas produced by the
battery explodes.
- Once the engine is started, first remove the
earth cable.
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