Locomotive. ---- i deal with
08-20-2008, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Re: Locomotive. ---- i deal with
Yeah a runaway diesel is something that can't often be stopped. My first experience with such was after first moving to canada when I was 6, my uncle had his d6 cat dozer to the wall, started to run away, he grabbed a piece of ply wood to throw over the intake, and it broke and got sucked it, ran up till it was seized.
08-20-2008, 01:26 PM
#15
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 673
Re: Locomotive. ---- i deal with
thats nuts, i wouldnt want anything to do with a runaway TRAIN engine. they had one run away at a branch store for a company i used to work for. it was a ford like f450 or something that the fuel from the injector somehow made its way into the valve cover and the valve train started "whipping" the oil annd fuel together and it expanded out the breather hoses, started running on that until it popped.
they pulled pistons out of the side of cars like 4 or 5 stalls down.
they pulled pistons out of the side of cars like 4 or 5 stalls down.
08-20-2008, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: St. Augustine FL
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Re: Locomotive. ---- i deal with
Originally Posted by pistol
the day before the pos let go, we replaced 2 power assemblys, and i got one of the pistons. this is a good way to spend 2 million bones
08-20-2008, 07:22 PM
#19
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Re: Locomotive. ---- i deal with
Originally Posted by kain
eh, i think this stems from oil leaking into the combustion chambers. since you need no power (just the heat and compression ) to get the diesel going, it runs. but when theres an oil leak, it just goes loose and never stops running untill it seizes.
was a question on cartalk radio on npr.
was a question on cartalk radio on npr.
