MTU 8V 396 diesel engine catastrophic failure

This is a MTU 8V 396 diesel engine blowing up. This video was shown during a rebuild class I just took. Not really sure what happened. My guess would be that it spun a bearing, causing a piston to try and sieze, in turn throwing a rod. Pay attention at 24 seconds to the engine torquing hard to the left and the terrible sound it makes until it lets go...

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Autos & Vehicles

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• MTU 8V 396
• diesel
• engine failure

[penske13]

i've seen this before. it's a forced failure of this unit by the manufacturer. it was done on purpose.

[burnbabey12]

Well that'll void the warranty.

[randytosh]

that was sick

[gmsd70mac]

MUST BE A FORD 6.0 OR 6.4-no other motor can blow up as much other than cadillac motors!!!

[KITNARAGNAROG]

in my expert opinion of work i would say that motor flipped its own shit. feel sorry for the helper stuck cleaning up that dead hooker in the bay.

[TheKevinChannel1]

Some body grab the lucas oil treatment

[djlabby]

This engine is a MTU 186, not 396. It is a forced failure for testing purposes. Every manufacturer does it to see how long and under what sort of load and condition an engine will last. Amazing it went viral. Good to teach my students of what can happen.

[GOOBANANAS]

Clean up in engine room 2.

[navyone1978]

Who has the JB Weld?

[RazsterTW]

That'll buff right out.

[michaelproch]

And we drive around with these things haha

[falaqdad15]

must have been scary for the new employee then