Rob Guenther wrote:
> Well this is just a hypothetical question brought on by a friend of
> mine telling me he made it 20 minutes after his alternator died on
> his Lumina... I was thinking, with no spark plugs and much less of an
> electrical load, how long would a diesel engine run without any
> alternator?
> Seems to me only the ECU would need power (no electric fuel pumps on a
> diesel right?), lights could be disabled by switching them off and
> pulling the parking brake up far enough to activate the DTRL shutoff
> - but not enough to apply the parking brake.

It all depends. I would not expect a new electronic injection to do as
well as an old mechanical model. The old ones could do hundreds of miles.
I don't think they needed electric for anything other than holding the fuel
kill switch open.

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Joseph Meehan

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