Just one cylinder causing all that panic!.....Evidently, the crankcase was overfilled and the oil therein became the fuel for the 'runaway'.
My gaze was transfixed by that flywheel getting ever closer to that propane cylinder.
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Story:This video illustrates what happens when these two stroke semidiesels run out due to too much oil in the crankcase. With my left hand, I block the injection pump, so from that time the engine run on lube oil only, no diesel at all. I have heard lots of stories about this from decades ago but this is the first time, to my knowledge, that it is captured on video. Luckily we had blocked most of the air intake prior to starting and ended at about 600 rpm. Max operating rpm is 425-450. With full air supply, I would guess this engine would reach thousands of rpm and I could only guess what would have happened then...
The electric glowplug short circuited so we had to rely on the propane burner which had slightly low temperature. In this startattempt, we used an autogen burner and got the glowplug bright red. The crankcase was, unfortunately, filled with too much oil so the engine was running on its lube oil from the crankcase instead of diesel. Still some trouble with the fuel injection, doesn't feel right when injecting diesel manually.
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