Diesel Mech Students fire/up a Cummins in the classroom....got to see this.

[rjohnson916]

I don't know about you-all, but I don't think I would be standing next to a Cummins running like these folks. None the less this little video rocks if you love the Cummins.



Check it out.







http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9089807880937618208





-Ryan

 

[Signal73]

Huh? What'd ya say? Can't hear ya.

Them kids at graduation

 

[Jeff H]

I'm throwing back together my 855 at school too. Can't wait to hear that thing thump. As my instructor says. You can make that thing breathe fire!

Coundn't get vid to work?

 

[JoshPeters]

I couldn't get the vid either... .



Josh

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

Must have been Redneck Diesel Repair school.



I would have *****-slapped that instructor all over the room for doing something that stupid.



Namely the unguarded turbo inlet and the front belts.



It only takes a second and that turbo will eat your fingers. literallly... . and will eat up half the hand too. Never underestimate them.



I saw a Detroit V-92 run away during fuelrack test setting... ... a 5 inch thick phonebook was no match for it... it promptly ate the center right out of it. Only thing that stopped it was a 1/4 thick piece of scrap stock thrown against the turbo inlet to choke the air. Along with a little help from a CO2 extinguisher.

 

[Dl5treez]

Did you see the instructor to the left on the screen holding the big piece of wood? That's the runaway stopping device. Notice how he's watching intently just in case?



The instructors at Wyoming Tech carry around 1/4" thick clipboards for that very reason. We had to borrow one to put out a 8V92 Detroit on the 2nd to last day of the phase. It wasn't my project engine either. :-laf



Besides, why protect a student in a diesel technology program from exposed belts, open intakes, and open exhausts when after graduation they'll be doing exactly what the instructor running the engine is doing?



Gotta start someplace, might as well get real-world experience in school.

 

[nickleinonen]

every engine in my schools engine lab is more or less sitting like that [but most have a rad and cooling fan on them, so the belts are somewhat shielded, and there is wire screens on the turbo inlets]



i guess if you are not use to it, it would be a little scary standing so close to one of those engines running especially of someone gives it full fuel so it hits the governed rpm.



in the lab at school, we had



N14 cummins

S60 ddc

E6 mack

isbe cummins

isx cummins

855 cummins

dt466 navistar

3126e cat

c13 cat [or c12??]

6v71 na ddc

6v92 turbo ddc

3406 cat



those are the ones i can think of that i remember the models. .

we also had a single cylinder lister hand cranked engine [it can be started without decompression valve too] some air cooled deutz v6 [11 liter range] some hino I6 idi engine [6 liter'ish] an old bedford 6 cylinder with 5 holes working, and a whole slew of other engines that were in pieces and not in running condition [that bedford ran with 5 holes out of the 6 assembles [#1 was sitting on the bench (piston, rod, pushtubes, injector)]



and all out engines when running you could get as close to as the one in the video clip [except for the 6v92 running under load on the dyno]



no clipboards for us, but lots of co2 extingushers avalable

 

[Greenleaf]

At my school in Lima Ohio, we had many engines that could be fired up. Two of them were attached to a water brake dyno. A Cummins 855 and a Detroit 8V92 The Cummins would literally throw fire while the exhaust manifold glowed cherry red.



-S

 

[GFrance]

Looked to be a 400 big cam 3 or 4 had one in the truck I drove for 14yrs. Changed the button in the pump to a #14 & she would roll out the coal on those stacks. Had it dynoyed at cummins nw after having a tune up & she was putting 425 to the wheels.

The n-14 I have now pulls even better.

 

[ndurbin]

When I was going to school we used John Deere engines (Ag. diesel program). There was a dedicated test stand to run each engine on and was hooked up a coolant supply when running. We had sheilds made for the flywheel, don't remember any on the front tho. But we weren't running any fans anyway.



What is more interesting to see is someone attempting to dyno an engine in a combine. Dyno held up in the air on the forklift.



Nathan

 

[PSchwering]

Nice Video! Anyone ever see an old PT fuel system engine run with the Return Fuel Line clamped off with a vice grips? Not that I would ever do such a thing, but it is quite the sight (and sound) to see an old N14 start floating the Valves!



To be serious, This happened when I was in College. The Engine was in a Dyno room, So it was not so dangerous. I have never seen the instructor move so fast! He Cranked down the Dyno to slow the engine, then walked in the cell, removed the Vice grips, & barely got back out in time to release the Dyno before it died. I would Not recommend such a thing, but it is interesting. I Think the kid that did it failed the class! :-laf

 

[Nate]

I agree on the Redneck school. Yeah it's all good to be a lazzy *** and not use guards and other safety stuff, but when you loose a body part... . oh well. Plus schools have to be OSHA compliant... . just as the shops are supposed to be.

 

[ndurbin]

Schools dont have to be OSHA compliant. And that came right out of the mouth of a lady who does shop inspection to make them OSHA compliant.



Nathan

 

[Nate]

I could be wrong then. I do know schools in Maine are inspected by OSHA.



... Teach it the right way and if you want to do it wrong, well that's up to you.

 

[JoeBioDiesel]

In NY, if OSHA inspects an automotive college, they are looking for dangers that might harm the instructors and staff, but not the students. The school, and Instructors are responsible for student safety.

Joe