Holy crap! Why the heck you didn’t push the clutch and hit the brakes hard before you went that high??
Engine damage with high rpm
Discussion in 'Heavy Duty Diesel Truck Mechanics Forum' started by Aqel1982, Oct 19, 2018.
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Worst part of this is we will never see pictures of the damage
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If so I'm buying one ! -
This is why trucking companies can not afford to pay company drivers $0.60 per mile. Since I've moved over to the operations side of the industry, I've seen first hand multiple examples of nice, new, expensive equipment being outright abused like the OP. Even "experienced" drivers (we require 2 yrs OTR) do incredibly stupid stuff and have absolutely zero regard for the financial hits employers take when stuff like this happens. Some of the things drivers do is mind boggling.
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He almost made it to Albuquerque lol.
Boneheads ! -
Ive turned over older engines the 3200 range decades ago and a few other unlimited tractors were still supplying fuel at 2800 Well beyond the 2300 then redline.
Engineers have spent decades making sure that if at all possible you don't idle anything, clog the thing up and refuse to take the doggie out for a run, say trapped in the 1400 range.
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Did you think it’s a good idea too let the RPMs go that high? What were you thinking.
I assume it went over 3600. There is no reason to go over 2000. When I had my own truck I would rarely go over 1800.
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a friend of mine went down a steep hill on a bush road loaded with a 155 komatsu crawler, couldn't get it out of gear as it ran away on him with full brake application. by the time he got his foot on the clutch the flywheel and clutch exploded. you can imagine the damage, but the engine was ok. months later after it had been repaired he started having electrical issues in the dash, when they pulled the dash apart there was a piece of the flywheel still in the dash that had damaged the wiring on it's journey upward.
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Well I guess OP didnt like what heard here, we haven't since him since.
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