Diesel Engine Runaway - 2005 Cummins
Here is something I have never heard of in all my years of turning wrenches and fixing stuff. Got a call, (multiple texts actually) from a close cousin yesterday. They had just got back from a nice...
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colliehauler wrote:
JRSCOOBY had a JD backhoe that started to have a runaway on a gasoline pipeline leak. With it just shut it off.
If you go to YouTube and type in runaway Diesel there are several videos.
Any compression fired engine will run on, if there is combustible vapor in the air. Lube oil leaking into the turbo from the the seal that is to keep it in the bearing is most common.
For that matter, when they first leaned out the fuel mixture on spark plug engines they had issues with them continue to run when shut off. First solution was let the air flow shut off tighter when shut off ignition.
