Re: Honest John - modern diesels

Zathras wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:43:40 +0100, "Mike P" <privacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I did just that, though "wander away in bemusement" was more like it. I did think about opening the bonnet and choking it or something, but I didn't fancy putting my hands anywhere under the bonnet. Stalling it didn't cross my mind, but I was younger and even stupider back then..

LOL. From what I saw on Scrapheap Challenge a while back, suffocation
is way too slow and tricky a method to stop a runaway. In that one,
the big diesel was being suffocated (by rags and junk shoved up the
air intake) but only stopped when its con-rods broke.

Wasn't that the one with a guy who decided to tinker with the governor or something and it just ran away with itself until it broke.

D
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