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Old timer's engine question
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<blockquote data-quote="Redfish Hunter" data-source="post: 1109714" data-attributes="member: 28773"><p>I have heard stories of old Detroit Diesel engines running backwards. Detroit Diesel engines were two strokes, the only two stroke diesel engines I ever heard of. If they sputtered and popped on startup and wound up spinning backwards enough to fire and would run backwards. The part I never understood was that in every story I heard about these old Detroits running backwards they all revved really high. They would spin up beyond the normal RPM and would destroy themselves. The normal shut off method would not work and there would not be time to try anything else before they failed internally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Redfish Hunter, post: 1109714, member: 28773"] I have heard stories of old Detroit Diesel engines running backwards. Detroit Diesel engines were two strokes, the only two stroke diesel engines I ever heard of. If they sputtered and popped on startup and wound up spinning backwards enough to fire and would run backwards. The part I never understood was that in every story I heard about these old Detroits running backwards they all revved really high. They would spin up beyond the normal RPM and would destroy themselves. The normal shut off method would not work and there would not be time to try anything else before they failed internally. [/QUOTE]
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