2015 run away

[Dozerboy]

We had one of our big trackhoes run away. I stood back and waited for the boom. It ran out of oil first. That job site was 80 acres and you couldn't see half of it through the smoke.

It was funny our "mechanic" was driving it. We shut it down because the turbo was feeding it oil. He didn't want to haul tool and parts across a mud field so he RAN it over to his truck.


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[catman3126]

Yeah I guess you could spray the powder kind on a air filter and plug it up. I be the c02 would work too since that would displace all the oxygen.

 

[zf>allison]

I caught my fuel filter head hard line was rubbing my intercooler pipe. It's almost through the intercooler pipe I wondered if it rubbed through both if I would spray fuel into the cold pipe and run away? I would imagine it would.

And if it did stopping air at the turbo wouldn't help. It would suck air through the hole I would imagine.

 

[Janimal444]

Just to clarify, I meant the CO2 kind. I don't know if the powder kind would work.

I'd prefer to give the intake a spray versus having my hands/face in the engine bay trying to choke out the intake.

 

[Hot COCOAL]

I've been thinking about somehow installing an electronic butterfly valve at the connection point between my 3" y-bridge and IC pipe...with a toggle switch to activate it under the drivers side dash by my right knee.

That would work to stop a run-away, right?

 

[Akers]

I've been thinking about somehow installing an electronic butterfly valve at the connection point between my 3" y-bridge and IC pipe...with a toggle switch to activate it under the drivers side dash by my right knee.

That would work to stop a run-away, right?

A guillotine type shut off works a lot better.

 

[catman3126]

sled pullers use them all the time.

 

[Cknight199]

X2 sled pullers use guillotine shut offs all of the time.

 

[Dozerboy]

Just to clarify, I meant the CO2 kind.

Haha now that makes more sense. We only ever have the ABC type one.


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[MadMaxx61]

X2 sled pullers use guillotine shut offs all of the time.

I have installed one on a Ford shop truck it is on with a linear actuator as the truck is so crappy it's the only way to shut it off. I charged them 500$ to do it. The truck has been that way not for 2+ years still runs but burns a quart of oil a week.