>-----Original Message-----
>From: Randy Abernathy [mailto:Cnc002@AOL.COM]
>Sent: 24 June 2004 17:01
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [EE:] Diesel engine cutout
>
>
>In a message dated 6/24/2004 11:46:26 AM Eastern Daylight
>Time, dwheeler@INSIGHTEK.NET writes:
>
>In  pickup trucks like the Dodge/Cummins 6L they have a common
>rail as  well. It's amazing how much pressure is created in
>the new diesel fuel  rails these days.
>
>
>You would not want to have your hands under one of the
>injectors when it "fires".  When I was working as a mechanic,
>we had an injector test jig  where you could put the specified
>pressure on the injector and the activate  it.  I have seen
>guys get their hands or a finger under the injector by
>accident and the diesel fuel would go right into the hand or
>finger.  A few  lost thier fingers as a result.
>
>Some of these develop 2500 psi and up.  Newer ones, I
>understand, can  be well over 3000 psi.

Try 1600 BAR for a common rail system!  That's over 23000 PSI.

Regards

Mike




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