[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

[Mike Dailey]

There is a You Tube video of some guys working a diesel engine that goes
into run away.  They try choking off the intake too. 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Stephens [mailto:artstephens at verizon.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 1:05 PM
To: bill gaino; Mike Dailey; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

I replaced a bad Jake Brake switch on a fire engine one day. I didn't
realize they had to be adjusted so I just screwed it in until it stopped. 
When we fired it up, it was at wide open throttle. Being compression
ignition with no emergency shut off, we couldn't shut it down. So there I am
with a big diesel engine running up against the governor and I couldn't
figure out how to kill it down. The rest of the guys came out of the station
because it sounded like a locomotive was sitting in front of the station. We
tried to shut off the air by putting a plastic bag over the air intake which
almost killed the engine but not quite. It did make the thing smoke like an
old train to the point to where we could barely see! Finally someone found
the fuel shut off under the rig which eventually killed it. I think my blood
pressure was up against the governor until it died. :-]]

Art



-----Original Message-----
From: bill gaino
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 9:32 AM
To: Mike Dailey ; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

Just as scary, I had wide boots when I stepped on the brake in my 89
Wagoneer. The right part of my foot mashing the gas. The back wheels where
squalling and the front wheels dragging as I mashed harder, it kept speeding
up. You instint is NOT to let off the brake. I hit my trailer!  Bill 1362

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Dailey <panteraplace at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 4, 2012 12:12 PM
>To: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash
>
>I had my throttle sick wide open on my 1960 Ford that I owned at age 19. 
>It
>was a 292 V8 and a three speed manual floor shifter.   I had the air 
>cleaner
>off and when I put it back on it was turned so the throttle lever would 
>stick open.  I pulled out of the service station and floored it in 
>first gear.  I started to back off a bit in first gear and realized my 
>throttle was stuck to the floor.  It all happens in absolute 
>nano-seconds, and by instinct alone my left hand went for the key and 
>my left foot for the clutch.  My left foot on the clutch beat my hand to
the key and thank
>goodness the rpm was limited by valve float.   It sounded absolutely
>horrible.   The engine survived fine, but from then on I've always been 
>very
>careful with free throttle movement.
>
>Anyone else have a throttle stick wide open?  I wonder if this type of 
>WOT crash event could be related to a person that normally drives an 
>automatic and the instinct is to go for the brake rather than the key and
clutch.
>
>Mike
>
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