Re: [MV] Cold weather starting aids

From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 11:25:26 PST


hey youse guys with these diesels, can you use carb cleaner which you can
use in place of ether
on a gas engine?

Steve AKA Dr Deuce

----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathon" <jemery@execpc.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Cold weather starting aids

>
> >. A "small dose" of ether (a small dose for
> >me is about one second from a normal aerosol can) may be enough to run
the
> >engine for one or two cycles and it should be under governor control
after
> >that.
>
> My flame primer (from a Perkins engnie) that is on my Cummins 4BT died
> while away from home and I was no where near a plug for the block heater.
It
> would roll over fine but would not show any sign of wanting to fire. Three
> times, each morning that is, I started the thing with a shot of ether.
Let
> me describe how small a shot, from 4 feet away I let off the quickest
spirt
> that I possibly could aimed at the air intake, then ran around and tried
to
> start it. It took about 2 revolutions and it fired right off. The knocking
> noise it made for a second or two after it started running was cause for
> concern but it never "took off" on it's own as some suggest.. Experiance
> with other diesels also suggests that an extremely small amount often does
> the trick and to much will result in very unpleasant knocking noises if
not
> actually locking up the engine such that it won't roll over tdc because
the
> ether fired before that, seen this on an old tractor that won't start even
> in warm weather without ether.
>
> later,
>
> je
>
>
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