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Re: Will an EMD 2 stroke run away like a Detroit?
Author: SP5103
Date: 02-02-2012 - 23:05
Regardless of what kind of diesel it is, if you lose an oil seal in the turbo or blower, or the engine starts sucking oil out of the crankcase, shutting off the fuel has no affect whatsoever.
There was a company that marketed "The Slammer" for a while years ago. This was an air cylinder that slammed a gate across the air intakes to starve a runaway engine for air, hopefully stopping it before it expolded or blew its bearings. Rumor has it that the slammers were not worth the effort, and the engines tended to injest the air filters when the slammers were tripped (for a reason or a false trip). To my knowledge, the slammers fell out of use.
I have seen instructions in a Caterpillar manual that when starting an engine for the first time after heavy repairs, to have someone standing next to each ait inatek with a steel plate to close off the air supply if soemthing went unexpectadly wrong.
There was a company that marketed "The Slammer" for a while years ago. This was an air cylinder that slammed a gate across the air intakes to starve a runaway engine for air, hopefully stopping it before it expolded or blew its bearings. Rumor has it that the slammers were not worth the effort, and the engines tended to injest the air filters when the slammers were tripped (for a reason or a false trip). To my knowledge, the slammers fell out of use.
I have seen instructions in a Caterpillar manual that when starting an engine for the first time after heavy repairs, to have someone standing next to each ait inatek with a steel plate to close off the air supply if soemthing went unexpectadly wrong.
