Posted by The tractor vet on February 10, 2021 at 07:44:26 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Diesel run a way posted by Steve Metcalfe on February 10, 2021 at 06:26:40:
Like Mark and Mike said any combustible' how ever they enter With Detroits it is a stuck rack or gov failure for the most part unless it is on a drilling rig back in my oil path days it was not uncommon for a driling rig to go up in flames when they had a blow out from hitting pocket of surface gas that would blow the drilling mud up and out of the hole and the engines would get a wiff and it was off to the races , ya had a bunch of diesel engines all screaming on mud pumps air compressors light plants and draw works MOST were Detroits , now IF the crew could get all the emergency stops pulled no big deal just let the pocket blow it's self out or shut the blow out preventer valves If not then one of them would blow3 and the rig went up in flames . A turbo failure where the seal on the compressor side lets go and start pumping engine oil in and injector pump has and issue with the rack of governor . One morning as i was heading out when i got to the end of my drive i was waiting on traffic to pullout and head north a left turn for me and all of a sudden my Cummins started to gain speed and was now getting close to 3 grand with lost of preignition knocking knew right off she wqas wiffen Natural gas and as soon as i could i went right to get out of it . The gas line at the edge of my drive developed a bad leak . Over the years i have been around runaway engines . The one that was funny was a what they called a 6-110 Detroit , where i worked when i was a kid the company rented on big shop bay to four guys that were rebuilding Detroits for the oil field . They had just rebuilt this engine and had it on a stand outside the shop running wide open for break in . I was Steam cleaning parts of a D 8 i was working on close to it and i started to notice it was Gaining RPM a little at a time , so i walked into there part of the shop and told Wild Bill about it and he came out and yep she is starting to run away , He unhooked the wire they had holding it wide open and tried to shut it down , that did not work so he pulled the valve cover and tried to force the rack closed bare handed , that did not work all the while this thing is running faster . He runs back in the shop and comes out with a pair of vise crips and clamps them on the rack and she will NOT move , next he pulls the fuel lines out of the 30 gallin barrel of fuel thinking it will shut down when the fuel runs out , NOPE she is now sucking oil out of the oil pan up past the rings . Where they went wrong is they left the emergency shut down butterfly off the intake of the blower and now way to shut off the air . He grabed a small piece of ply wood and threw it up against the intake of the blower and it SUCKED the ply wood thru the blower that munched it up and spit it out the exhaust , Next he tried feeding it the box of red dirty shop rags that were setting there waiting to get picked by the uniform company thinking that they would lock up the blower and shear the blower dive , NOt it was raining red shop rag confetti out the pipe NOW was the time to RUN and EVERYBODY on both sides RAN waiting for the BOMB to go off . Just how high that engine went i can not say but she was screaming when it ran out of oil in the pan she started to seize up and started to come back down and lock up and about fell out of the cradle . They saved NOTHING out of that engine other then the ft. case rear case , valve cover and oil pan . IOn my patch days i was at two rig fires one up near Mike N/E and once down south I personally had two Detroits run away on me after rebuild due to faulty rebuilt injectors NO i did not rebuild the Injectors Detroit diesel did . I was smart i had the butterfly on the blower and vice grips already on the rack before start up .
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