Help 8v71 wont start

[HB of CJ]

Your mighty Detroit would NEVER run wild?  It would not dare!  You have a Crown Supercoach?  Crowns Forever! 

[Lin]

Yes, the choice whether or not to use the flap may just be the hope that it will only do serious damage and avoid complete destruction.  That's why a called it a desperate last resort on a true runaway.

[luvrbus]

Any diesel engine will runaway under the right circumstances   

[Scott Crosby]

Mine self deployed at 70mph on the interstate.  And it sucked about a gallon of oil from the blower into the airbox in the 1/2 mile as I pulled over.  If I had thrown the clutch in right away it wouldn't have sucked so much but I first thought out of fuel the way it lost power so I switched to the reserve tank and stayed on it for ten or fifteen seconds before looking in the mirror and seeing black smoke billowing across the highway.  I left a straight solid line of oil on the interstate as far as I could see that came from the air box drain.   Luckily my seals in the blower were only a few months old and have not yet shown any signs that they were damaged.  Biggest problem was it collapsed my intake hose.  Its happened a few time on me since.  That day I secured it with electrical tape and thought that would keep it up but like a week later the tape got hot and stretched allowing it to deploy.  Now it's zip tied.  3751 mounts the plunger vertical and vibration can pop it out of the locked position.  I thought my engine was dead by the amount of oil that poured from the airbox.  But nope I just let it drain and added a gallon to the engine, wedged the intake hose into a non collapsed position and wrapped it with duct tape and away I went.

[chessie4905]

Halon might be considered also.

[bevans6]

Halon would be a great choice - clean, pure gas, wouldn't harm anything in the engine at all - but manufacture of halon has been banned since 1989.

Brian

[Lin]

I doubt that I will ever do anything to change the flapper system on this engine, but since people are floating ideas on alternate shutdown systems like CO2 and Halon, it brought a question to mind.  What would happen if one had a way to divert exhaust into the air intake?  Would that shut the engine down without creating other problems?

[Scott & Heather]

Lin,


I think what would happen is your bus would then run in perpetual free energy motion!!! You should patent that idea!!!!

[Lin]

I thought that Apple got the patent for perpetual motion along with the one for the rectangle.

[luvrbus]

I won't mention his name, I know this guy that got a bargain on a starter (25 bucks) some how with the left handed rotation starter he bought for a right handed engine he got his 8v71 started backwards.He called me in a panic mode by the time I got there the 8v71 had the whole neighborhood smoked up and was still chugging a long ,it took a while to get it shut down even with flapper closed.I LMAO he didn't think it was all that funny till a few hours later  

[Scott Crosby]

That's funny Clifford

[harpold700 3]

Blower drive shaft?