stopping a diesel

Been there and done that. What happens is crankcase oil builds up in the air box until it gets to the level of the passages to the valves. Hit a bump and the engine swallows a big gulp of oil and runs full-throttle for about 5 seconds. Scared the hell out of me the first time. Pulling the cover off the air box and mopping it out once a month 'fixed' the problem til I got rid of the car.

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Jim Stewart
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the things i learn here(!), i always thought that was just a throttle control. guess i never really left it on.

my friend always asked me, "where is the meter?", or, "did you have the meter taken out? nice job, can't hardly tell..." he spent a couple of years in Germany and rode in plenty of 220D taxi's.

--Loren

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Loren Coe

Rural Lowndes county, In Alabama. Bout 12 miles out of the Capital city of Montgomery.

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It might not help, but I would write a letter to the editor of the local paper. You could just edit what you wrote here a bit and add that there should be an investigation as to why there was such slow response times. Suggesting that the elected officials are not doing their job of overseeing the emergency crews. Stress that there were plenty of emergency personnel when they got there ( if that is true ).

Dan

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Dan Caster

It'll tend to have problems passing the air filter, so will throttle it quite effectively, as well as breaking up lumps of water. You need to get quite a lot of water into the engine to get past what the engine can take. Not recommended of course, but maybe better than it racing to destruction.

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Ian Stirling

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:40:08 +0000 (UTC), Ian Stirling wrote something ......and in reply I say!:

I did hear an interesting story about a guy who fired a water fire extinguisher (hose) into a jet engine intake when it belched flames and he panicked, causing the engine to race out of control.

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Greg O scribed in :

this is, to me, a hazard. I ran turbocharged diesel alternators in the army. 50kw 3 phase 230 volts. one of them had lostit's electronic control panel before I arrived, and the starting method was to tie the fuel solenoid up with some wire, then bridge the terminals on the starter with the cap from an antitank mine. started up everytime. but when the service chappy put the wrong oil in it and it overheated, it could not turn itself off. the person who came to call me refused to go near it because it was so hot the paint was peeling off the block. I had to go up to it and remove the wire, just a tug on the slip knot and it died, no problem. the turbo was never the same after that.....but within weeks I was posted elsewhere so it didn't matter to me. service chappy just waited for it to cool down and changed the oil for the right stuff.

the 50kva unit ran the walk in fridge for the kitchen during the day, with a 15kva run at night for essential services like radios.

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