How bout a home made kill switch?

Take a fuse that will fit for your fuel pump. burn it. solder it to a swith w/ 
an inline fuse

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> The towel or the fire extinguisher work fine. I have used both. Some 
> marine GM diesels had a flapper in the intake manifold for emergency 
> shutoff. 
> 
> I had a LARGE Sulzer run away with me once (broken shaft in the injector 
> pump distributor). Luckily it had a cutout on EACH injector. I pulled 
> all the cutouts and ran from the engine room. It reached about 1200 rpm 
> before it ran out of fuel (It usually ran at 450-500 rpm). I was lucky. 
> 
> Thomas E. Potter 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marshall Booth 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:43 AM 
> To: Mercedes mailing list 
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] emergency shutdown procedures 
> 
> 
> Steve MacSween wrote: 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> >>Will someone please review for me the ways to quickly kill the engine 
> >>if disaster should strike? The ones that come to mind are firing a CO2 
> >>fire extinguisher into or stuffing a towel into the air cleaner. 
> 
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