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Old 9th May 2008, 22:05   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by johnnyjo View Post
if engine switched on it escelerates to full power and will not switch off followed by a lot of smoke and a tapping sound from the engine only way i could turn off engine was to put it in gear & jam the brakes it was like a vehicle possessed out of a horror movie but honda dealers blame it on excessive oil..........
your dealer is spot on johhny,because of the high oil level once the oil it gets hot it gets drawn up into the intake system via the crankcase breather system & enters the inlet manifold as oil mist(not unlike injected diesel) which starts to burn rapidly.whilst the diesel injection system injects a controlled metered amount of diesel fuel on each injection pulse,once the oil mist starts to burn you have no means of controlling the speed of the engine & if not stopped by stalling the engine it will rev to destruction !! this also used to happen on older style of diesel engines (non common rail) if there was a fault with the governor for example on the fuel pump this could allow the pump to keep injecting past the maximum governed speed of the engine & they just use to rev up until they blew up unless you managed to stall it.
diesel fuel itself has whats called a `rising characteristic` that is for a given amount of fuel the engine will rev up & up untill it blows up,thats why diesel engines are governed to prevent themselves from overevving & causing damage.
has your engine sustained any major damage ? if you managed to stall it & saved the engine from any major damage then by draining the oil back down to the correct level it may be ok !
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