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I was thinking about that too. A shutoff would be easy to install.
I made a mistake about unplugging the fuel pump. I was thinking about this last night.I re-read my own post(14)...
The filters were empty when it died. I had to pull the secondary one down to fix the blown out oring. I reprimed it and the engine still ran afterwards although there was damage.
I had first tried to visegrip th synflex fuel supply line from the filters to the IP but it built up too much pressure in the Fuel filter and blew out the oring on the cover and started spraying fuel everywhere so I took it off and then unplugged the LP.
I hear you. I have on other diesels. In my case, I was ready with a block off for the air and prepared to stall it in gear. What I did not know was the PO had already had it runaway and he smoked the clutch to the point where it did nothing so with it choked I unplugged the LP and after about...
It was how I finally killed mine. Unfortunately it was too late.
Let me expand on that. I don't know the IP on the Deuce that well but I assume you mean the internal transfer pump can keep pulling fuel even with no lift pump ? Perhaps the lift pump is flow on fail ? But in my case being that the...
This will be a work in progress which I hope to get stickied as too many people have lost motors due to being unprepared for a runaway.
Runaway is when you cannot shut the engine down and it keeps gaining RPM until it self destructs. I lost my motor to it. So have other people recently which is...