1 Safety measures
Preventing fire and explosion
Fire 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 components but make use of good quality, non-inflammable, non-poisonous solvents that are available from dealers. • Always be alert to possible fuel or oil leakage! If you discover a leak, take counter-measures 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 vicinity 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.
• Connecting (emergency) extra starting battery 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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