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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On diesel boats, there is often a t-handle that you pull which cuts off fuel to the engine and it's the standard way of shutting it down.
Doesn't help if it starts sucking oil into the cylinder but it will solve an over-fuel situation.
Basically if a diesel engine has fuel and air getting into the cylinder, it will run, so you have to cut off one of those (gas engines also need spark and that's simpler to cut off)
Doesn't help if it starts sucking oil into the cylinder but it will solve an over-fuel situation.
Basically if a diesel engine has fuel and air getting into the cylinder, it will run, so you have to cut off one of those (gas engines also need spark and that's simpler to cut off)
