Re: [MV] Diesel Run Away

From: Andreas Mehlhorn (a.mehlhorn@t-online.de)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 13:46:47 PDT


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TACO6513@aol.com schrieb:
>
> Hi All,
>
> My Grandfather has told me of this happing for a Cat engine on a dozer. He
> said to have a pocket knife handy and cut the fuel line. He said that will
> kill it before it blows up. This is my 2 cents.
>
> Thanks
> lee

This doesn't work. In the big fuel filter in front of the injection pump
is enough fuel to blow up the engine. So you have to cut the fuel line
between the filter and the injection pump. And this line is most times
a steel tube.

Regards
Andreas
 



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