run away diesels

[tuckertrucker]

Runaway is most commonly added fuel from a different source such as what I just experienced by a seal on a turbo letting oil through the intake.

The oil is then the fuel for the engine not diesel so a fuel cut off will not do anything.

To stop a runaway you would need to stop air, a snorkel would be a winner by blocking the snorkel and starving the runaway engine of air or to try and stall the engine.

Yeah I just suffered the same thing.... oil seal in turbo blew and oil blew through the intake. Engine very quickly climbed to 3500 and with my foot on the brake I pulled into the nearest drive way and stole their garden hose, soaked my shirt and wrapped it around the filter. Starved it of fuel and after about 10 seconds the engine stalled itself.

Then a rather red faced home owner comes running out wondering what all the noise was and why there was a shirtless fat shit standing in his driveway