Runaway Toyota Diesel Dies In a Massive Cloud of Smoke

BangShift.com

The runaway diesel engine is an interesting thing. The condition can be brought on by a number of factors. In this case it was apparently caused by overfilling the engine with oil. With no throttle to vary engine speed and a motor literally consuming its own oil, death is imminent. This poor van’s engine most likely got a mouthful of engine oil that was forced out of a breather vent into the intake tract.

With that oil acting like a big infusion of fuel for the engine, the revs pickup, and when that happens the engine begins to suck more oil out of the vent and things quickly spiral out of control. The only way to stop it is to block the air intake of the engine and choke it off. In many cases, like this one, there’s no stopping it and the motor runs until it breaks the connecting rods or the crank or simply runs out of lube to burn and locks up tight.

This Toyota van releases enough crap into the air to offset 100 Priuses for a year!

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Posted at 7:52 am in Toyota

Comments

TheMelIonedOne
Nov 6, 2010 at 7:52 am

Dang, simon, nothing get’s past you.

simon_r_gris
Nov 5, 2010 at 9:18 am

Another Toyota fail.

midnighter
Nov 1, 2010 at 8:30 am

Drunk drivers for ya, they got places to go.

GTwildfire
Oct 24, 2010 at 6:51 pm

LOL… “Nothing to see here… Please move along…”
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Wow that was spectacular.
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I didn’t know these came in Diesel. I guess it’s a Previa. Mid-engine so yeah I guess choking it was outa the question, can’t even see the throttle body unless the driver seat is flipped up and the hatch beneath opened. Even then the intake duct would have to be disconnected… hopeless situation.
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What makes me wonder is these vans (at least the gas engine ones) have an engine oil reservoir under the hood and an oil level control system for the engine…

74Furyous
Oct 24, 2010 at 3:10 pm

but the salmon in the back? Delicious!

USMC_dad
Oct 23, 2010 at 7:18 pm

Had to kill at least 10,000 mosquitoes that day. Good work.

Master_Yogi_Bear
Oct 23, 2010 at 9:07 am

If you look close enough you can Cheech Marin running away in the distance.

Jen Dunnaway
Oct 22, 2010 at 1:19 pm

This is horrible!