Runaway Engine

Found this on LiveLeak today. Thought I would share. Not much for a driver to do but stay clear. The only way to stop it is to block off the intake air some how. Pretty hard with dual cleaners. Safety first, stay clear!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e2_1366330989

 

I seen this posted on here somewhere else today.

1 cut air to air line cover with clip board mud flap rags shirts hat or anything to plug the intake up...
2 highest gear let the clutch out and stall it out
3 fire ex into the air cleaner. even with 2 cleaners it will starve the motor out

or as this crap driver did get you cell phone out call 911 than setup and record someone else 15k motor lock up.

Personal If he worked for me he would be fired on the spot and finding a ride home. he had options but he was to worried about making a COOL vid to post online and make lots of friends

Hope his new friends pay his bills while he gets a new job

 

How can he put it in the highest gear when it's running away? Whatever gear it's in, that's the gear it will stay. If you're in a low gear there's no chance of stalling out the motor. Or worse yet neutral and it takes off.


He'd probably have better luck cutting the air intake hose after the turbo to try to cut off the flow of oil into the engine. But you have so little time before it runs the sump dry.

 

I don't know, this is easier said than done. Personally, trying to save a $15,000 engine isn't worth getting hurt over. This thing can grenade at any second with flying shrapnel that can kill. Once the engine starts to hit 4000 rpm it is sucking air so fast I doubt you can do anything to stop it. I guess unless you actually had the experience you really don't know.

 

You can drag that stick into gear slam it hard a tranny is cheaper than a whole motor anyday of the week

 

That's the thing I went to school for diesel mechaincs and I loved playing with our big v 8 cat but it always ran away. yea it sucks some air in but first if your rolling and it runs you can find a gear better 2 fire ex will kill her quickly even if its a small one she will die enough to drop her in gear very easly plus he was pulling a drop deck I am sure he has rubber matting onboard that will plug her up quick as well with a clip board. he had many options to go with from the start but he wanted a big vid hit

 

If you are stopped on the shoulder, push the clutch to the floor. The clutch brake will stop the input shaft so that you can get it into whatever gear you decide to use to stall the engine (just like it does any other time the truck is idling and you want to put it into gear). Then you let out the clutch and hope the drive shaft remains intact long enough to stop the engine. And if your brakes can't hold the truck against the pull of the engine, you need to have your brakes checked. Even in low gear, you should be able to apply the brakes and stall the engine.

I don't think this steering wheel holder had a clue what was going on. The truck wasn't "wide open". If the key was off (assuming it was since he said he couldn't shut it off), it wasn't getting ANY diesel fuel. It was running on engine oil, introduced into the intake through the blown turbo. As long as the engine kept sucking oil in through the intake, it would continue to run, and as long as it was running, the turbo would continue to pour oil into the intake. Eventually the oil pan went dry, starving the engine of its fuel source. Cutting the hose between the charge air cooler and the intake manifold would have accomplished the same thing in a much less destructive manner, as it would have sucked only air into the cylinders instead of a combustible air/oil mixture. Or you can try to suffocate the engine by restricting the flow of air into the cylinders. Plenty of things that COULD have been done IF his head were being used for more than a hat rack.

 

pretty hard to stall a engine turning between 2 to 3000 rpm i saw a guy smoking his clutch trying to do that he was lucky that he never opened hood as a rod cracked fibreglass when it came out of block although your fire ex idea sounds like a possible solution ive seen 2 runaways at stoplights pretty scary stuff how high engine revs thankfully not mine lol

 

I would think the only way to stall it with the transmission is while you're rolling, full brake application in gear hopefully in high range. I doubt the brakes would stop a runaway engine in low range, too much gearing. And whatever you do, don't push in the clutch!

That's what I was getting at when I said it would be hard to put it in a high gear, I meant while rolling. If you're stopped it's probably too late, you'll either smoke the clutch, grenade the clutch, or drop the driveshaft. There's just too much momentum.

 

Clutches are cheaper than engines. So are drive shafts.