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Guys, this is a rare occurrence, most of you have never even heard of this sort of thing happening let alone hearing of an owner experiencing this failure, just dangle a pair of needle nose from your rear view mirror, or better yet for all the guys who like clutter in the cab, install a small...

A rag into the intake won’t necessarily kill the engine…I’ve literally tested that theory by accident on several occasions, unbeknownst to me

DS4‘s are NOT inherently more prone to run aways, I work on them to in the H1’s since 1999, owned more H1’s than i can remember, never had a problem with any DS4 in the shop…PMD failure? Yes…but thats a dead motor, not a run away.

remind me not to ride in your trucks, over 30yrs as a Diesel mechanic and till that day, never had or seen a runaway diesel, this includes god knows how many diesel Generators i have worked on. and a reminder, this “runaway” as you call it was not due to what Normally causes a runaway diesel...

I love Monday morning QB’s

ummmm, shifting it to reverse will decimate your park pawl at just 1/2mph

shifting into park isn’t the issue…it’s at wide open throttle till you get the motor off, left in gear and foot mashed on the brakes gets it down to a manageable rpm’s

Any diesel can become a runaway, one way is severely excessive blow by and a saturated CDR, the excess oil can combust as part of the fuel it needs to operate. This is rare as rare comes…

Thats what happened to me!

Been there, done that….my story. left a paid Gig for a photo shoot, went to get on the expressway and as I slowed for traffic the engine raced, threw it into neutral, bad idea if I wanted a blown motor, back into gear to lower rpm’s, foot on the brak, I turned off the truck….no go pulled over in...