what engine is this?
“Its a german made MTU engine old 396 family, before they joined up with GM DDA this ones an 8V396. We had a lot of 16Vs in coal dump trucks in Australia, had to pull em out and dump them for the same reason, twisting blocks at high loads, this is what happens if you don’t bolt the front down tight”
it is interesting reading through the comments to see different opinions on what failed. I am inclined to believe turbo seal failure resulted in a runaway situation and kaboom. I never though about stopping a runaway engine with a extinguisher, or like the one person suggested 1. RUN or 2. throw a rag into the intake to choke the engine then run.
whatever happened i would not want to be anywhere close to that.
Why is it that these facilities do not have a CO2 engine “kill switch”? It would be fairly simple to set up and choke the engine preventing a runaway.
I can just imagine the operators sitting there
“Oh no, oh no, oh no, shit run!”
lol
The dyno test cells at my work have a “soft stop” and a “emergency stop” incase something goes wrong. Soft stop is where it brings the engine down to low idle then turns the engine off. Emergency stop kills power to everything, ecm power, and fuel feed at any speed. Emergency stop is only used if something breaks or someone gets hurt in the cell. CAT is all about safety, if the “stop” buttons don’t work the engine doesn’t run until the cell is 100% in working order.
Intense…
unless I am misunderstanding it the “soft stop” like you describe would not work on a run away diesel. When they are in a run away situation they are running on oil instead of fuel and will continue until they explode, run out of oil, or their air supply is cut off. The carnage would be really impressive in person.
Exactly my point…