Re: The Most Ridiculous Story in Gulf News
Not trying to hijack the thread, just want to relay a close experience to the OP.
I was a mechanic for a transit authority and we received 25 new buses. We had always ran Detroit Diesel engines, however DD was not able to supply transit bus engines due to emissions regulations. Not to many guys in our shop were familiar with the new engines. (Won't mention the manufatuer.) Soon after they were put on the road, drivers started complaining about the buses just "taking off". As mechanics, we tried like crazy to recreate the situation. It finally happened to me while test driving one of the buses in question. Scary experience, setting at a stop light and the engine reved up and was trying, quite successfully, to over come the brakes. I kicked the trans to neutral and called the shop and had it towed back. The engine manufactuer sent several engineers and all kinds of head honcho big wigs to our shop to figure out what was going on. While they were there, they started getting calls from there head office that the same thing was happening at a couple of different transit authorities across the country. The person who finally figured out what was going on was an old mechanic at their local shop. The inside of the fuel pumps were coming apart and little flakes of metal were getting into a check valve, allowing the pump to run wide open, unrestricted. Crazy, crazy mess. We were lucky that none of these buses were ever in an accident. If I remember right, 12 or 13 of the 25 were effected.
Once again, didn't mean to hijack the thread, the original post just rminded me of this. Sorry to be long winded.
