Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Hey fellow Cummins owners, I had an incident this past Wednesday morning on
my way to the deer lease. I was pulling my tractor and cruising into
Woodville Texas at around 70 mph when I was entering the city limits when I
tapped the brake to release the cruise control and it went off but the
throttle stayed in it. I thought initially my cruise had failed and was
causing my throttle to maintain it's current position. (Nearly Wide OPEN! )
I work the brakes real hard thinking maybe this would cause something to
release on the cruise and even down shifted to 4th but soon realized this
was going to burn my clutch up. By now I was inside the town and the speed
limit was 40 mph and I'm still doing 70+mph and my RPM pegged, I decided to
kill the engine, well that helped but with the load I then had not much
brakes to stop with and when I spotted a store to pull off into I turned
forgetting that my steering was going to lockup and when it did I finally
was able to stop about 10 ft. from the gas pumps I was fixing to slam into.
This was QUITE unnerving. When the rig stopped my brakes and clutch were
both smoking a little and I first went into the store to check my underwear
for you can guess! Then I went back out and proceeded to figure out what
was going on. I disconnected the cruise and then fired up the engine and
all seemed fine as I put it in gear and took off the throttle stuck again!
Now I had to find another pull off before I reached 60 mph and then killed
the engine again and coasted safely into another parking lot. This time I
reevaluated the diagnoses and found the actual problem. The back of the
throttle linkage were it connects to the injector pump has two bolts, one
of mine was completely gone and the other was 2-3 threads from being gone!
I searched around and found that the bolts that fasten the hood latch were
of the same size as the one I was missing and removed it and installed it ,
and tighten up the other one. But then my hood wouldn't latch and I robbed
a bolt from the front Intercooler mount to secure the latch so the hood
would close. Monday I'm going to the dealership to get the proper bolt and
check to see if I can use some red loctite to get some insurance that this
doesn't happen again. I'm writing all this crap so this doesn't happen to
any of you guys , I can only imagine if this would of happened around a
curve or in traffic how bad this could have been . CHECK YOURS IMMEDIATELY.
This was a very scary ordeal that I wouldn't want anybody to go through.
Cya, later Hoof Daddy
my way to the deer lease. I was pulling my tractor and cruising into
Woodville Texas at around 70 mph when I was entering the city limits when I
tapped the brake to release the cruise control and it went off but the
throttle stayed in it. I thought initially my cruise had failed and was
causing my throttle to maintain it's current position. (Nearly Wide OPEN! )
I work the brakes real hard thinking maybe this would cause something to
release on the cruise and even down shifted to 4th but soon realized this
was going to burn my clutch up. By now I was inside the town and the speed
limit was 40 mph and I'm still doing 70+mph and my RPM pegged, I decided to
kill the engine, well that helped but with the load I then had not much
brakes to stop with and when I spotted a store to pull off into I turned
forgetting that my steering was going to lockup and when it did I finally
was able to stop about 10 ft. from the gas pumps I was fixing to slam into.
This was QUITE unnerving. When the rig stopped my brakes and clutch were
both smoking a little and I first went into the store to check my underwear
for you can guess! Then I went back out and proceeded to figure out what
was going on. I disconnected the cruise and then fired up the engine and
all seemed fine as I put it in gear and took off the throttle stuck again!
Now I had to find another pull off before I reached 60 mph and then killed
the engine again and coasted safely into another parking lot. This time I
reevaluated the diagnoses and found the actual problem. The back of the
throttle linkage were it connects to the injector pump has two bolts, one
of mine was completely gone and the other was 2-3 threads from being gone!
I searched around and found that the bolts that fasten the hood latch were
of the same size as the one I was missing and removed it and installed it ,
and tighten up the other one. But then my hood wouldn't latch and I robbed
a bolt from the front Intercooler mount to secure the latch so the hood
would close. Monday I'm going to the dealership to get the proper bolt and
check to see if I can use some red loctite to get some insurance that this
doesn't happen again. I'm writing all this crap so this doesn't happen to
any of you guys , I can only imagine if this would of happened around a
curve or in traffic how bad this could have been . CHECK YOURS IMMEDIATELY.
This was a very scary ordeal that I wouldn't want anybody to go through.
Cya, later Hoof Daddy
It's just a good thing you weren't 10 feet closer to those pumps. Glad you got everything worked out.
