I think they got all the goody out of this one...

I read the comments for this video and the guys said they put a "Glove" in the turbo to make it stop!
Reminds me of a something i had to work on once! I work for a Drilling company and all i do is field work on mostly Cat diesels. But one of our rigs had 2 3512B quad turbo Gen sets on it and one of the turbos went down so a roughneck hit the emergency stop switch on the panel. By hitting the little red e-stop button you kill power to the injectors and it closes the air flappers thus killing fuel and air at once means no more go...... Well only one flapper worked this time. It ran so long dieseling on oil that the roughneck went to the Toolpusher/rig managers shack, woke him and got him out there to shut it down. They disconneted the batteries thinking that would work but didnt. They had enough time to see that one flapper wasnt closed so they pulled the air piping to manually block the 2 turbo's on the bad side, They tried cardboard clipboards but it sucked right through those and knocked the seal out of the good turbo on that side of the engine. Now WERE REALLY FEEDING HER OIL!!!! They then started to stuff those square oil soak diaper sheets in the turbos with a broom handle.
But just as The Little Engine That Could, it just kept on chugging! It ran for an estimated 1hr 30min at about a 1000rpm till it ran low on oil and started knocking out rod bearings till it finally spun a main bearing seezing it. It was a total mess and we started putting another one of these gen packages to togeather 3:00 pm on a friday so they could go back to drilling. We started with a bare block and crank laying in the floor by the next morning we were ready to run

We now check the air shut off system regularly -Caleb-

"YeLLoIrOn" wrote:

I read the comments for this video and the guys said they put a "Glove" in the turbo to make it stop!
Reminds me of a something i had to work on once! I work for a Drilling company and all i do is field work on mostly Cat diesels. But one of our rigs had 2 3512B quad turbo Gen sets on it and one of the turbos went down so a roughneck hit the emergency stop switch on the panel. By hitting the little red e-stop button you kill power to the injectors and it closes the air flappers thus killing fuel and air at once means no more go...... Well only one flapper worked this time. It ran so long dieseling on oil that the roughneck went to the Toolpusher/rig managers shack, woke him and got him out there to shut it down. They disconneted the batteries thinking that would work but didnt. They had enough time to see that one flapper wasnt closed so they pulled the air piping to manually block the 2 turbo's on the bad side, They tried cardboard clipboards but it sucked right through those and knocked the seal out of the good turbo on that side of the engine. Now WERE REALLY FEEDING HER OIL!!!! They then started to stuff those square oil soak diaper sheets in the turbos with a broom handle.
But just as The Little Engine That Could, it just kept on chugging! It ran for an estimated 1hr 30min at about a 1000rpm till it ran low on oil and started knocking out rod bearings till it finally spun a main bearing seezing it. It was a total mess and we started putting another one of these gen packages to togeather 3:00 pm on a friday so they could go back to drilling. We started with a bare block and crank laying in the floor by the next morning we were ready to run

We now check the air shut off system regularly -Caleb-

That story has roughneck written all over it... I laughed about the glove too, I know from first-hand experience that a red rag won't faze a turbo...(don't ask)...