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Rick
 
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Default Emergency diesel shutdown

NetSock wrote:
2-stroke diesels do not produce a vacuum.


The Roots type blower used to provide scavenging air to many 2-stroke
diesels will produce a very high vacuum.

I can attest to the fact that a runaway 2-stroke will pull enough vacuum
to crush and collapse many feet of sheet metal intake trunking.

Rick