Thread: Will it hold?
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Old 01-05-2007, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
He's referring to plugging the breather hose with his thumb in an attempt to pressurize the crankcase and shut the engine off via the shutdown diaphragm.

He's not attempting to stop the intake air with his hand.
I gotta disagree with you Brian, he actually states putting hand or book accross the U TUBE.... that's the intake. He is also talking about the breather tube, too. but the hand thing he is talking about the intake.

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Originally Posted by junqueyardjim View Post
But to stop that engine with the flat of your hand at WOT at the far end of the intake "U" tube, you're not going to loose any skin from that. It will suck like a very good vacuum cleaner, that's all. Probably leave a red circle on you palm and in two minutes that will be gone and then you will see the grease mark, that's all.
While I agree the end of the Utube is safer than against the turbo !!! I still think the vacuum of 5 or 6 pistons sucking against a 2.5" tube is enough to do serious damage to your hand. NO VACUUM cleaner is going to suck that hard!
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