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Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine

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Big Dean

11-28-2001 20:11:27

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Hey guys I have saw two post today one on this board & one on another where people have told someone to use WD40 to start there Diesel engine with they think it won,t hurt there engines. When you have built as many of the Perkins engine as I have because of using WD40 & starting fluid to start them with You will know it does hurt the engines. They will both wipe out the ring grooves on the pistons & it don't take much of either one. I have built more engines because of them than I every have because they were worn out. Just thought I would put my two cents worth on here about it.

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ferrell freeman

12-01-2001 05:01:29

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Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean , 11-28-2001 20:11:27

When a mechine is working in the woods an left over nite or ran out fuel you have to do thing another way ,and I, Have used the gas on rag trick.

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Buddyboy

12-01-2001 04:50:04

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Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean , 11-28-2001 20:11:27

I wonder if the engine was perhaps badly worn which made it hard to start in the beginning.

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Big Dean

12-01-2001 08:05:00

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Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Buddyboy, 12-01-2001 04:50:04

I rebuild one in a MF245 with an AD3-152 engine that was less than two months old with less than fifty hours on it. He had run it out of fuel & was running it to bleed the air out of the fuel system. It wiped out every piston in it. Massey Ferguson would not warranty it either.

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Lee

12-01-2001 03:31:02

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Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean , 11-28-2001 20:11:27

My MF165 has a block heater, when I want to use it after work I have an appliance timer (1200 watt)that I plug it into and set it so it comes on about two hrs before I get home from work.

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wayne

12-02-2001 18:52:17

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Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Lee, 12-01-2001 03:31:02

Good Idea!

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martin g.

11-30-2001 17:59:18

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Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean , 11-28-2001 20:11:27

Here is my two cents that will cost you guys only a few dollars and less headaches. Take a trip to your local autoparts supplier and buy a block heater. Install it in a frost plug on your engine and plug it for a couple of hours before starting.

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ferrell freeman

11-30-2001 16:03:50

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Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean , 11-28-2001 20:11:27

I, used it before when I,didnot have starting fluid with an oil additive . But sure didnot know about that thanks . I,guess the only the thing left for me, to use it for is dry out wet dist!

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Franz

11-29-2001 21:18:07

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Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean , 11-28-2001 20:11:27

How do you feel about sticking propane torches into the air intake?

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Ryan Bast

12-01-2001 07:51:22

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Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Franz, 11-29-2001 21:18:07

PLease help me!!! I purchased a Massey Tractor that is decalled as as MH 102 JR. But according to the ser # 382620, people are sayind it might be a MH 101. On the engine there is a oval plate that has date 42854 number 342 on it and a rectangle plate that has mfa162g30885 on it, is this the original engine Does anyone have any answers for me??? PLEASE

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Big Dean

11-30-2001 04:13:37

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Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Franz, 11-29-2001 21:18:07

I that would be much better the WD40 & starting fluid. It won't hurt a thing unless you go overboard with it. I have used a rag soaked in gasoline with the excess wrung out of it & held over the intake of the air cleaner several times. using propane would be about the same I never try that probably because I never thought about it till now. Big Dean

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B.C.

12-02-2001 18:24:21

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Re: Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean, 11-30-2001 04:13:37

Somewhere I read that GM used to run propane into carburetors of small block Chevs to test start them before they were shipped to the car assembly plants.

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wayne

11-30-2001 21:45:01

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Re: Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean, 11-30-2001 04:13:37

I have seen what was left of pistons and liners on engines that starting fluids have been used on.It's not very pretty and your wallet had better be loaded if one is not using it sparingly. As for me, my tractor will sit if she won't start without starting fluid. I don't require my tractor to earn a living though!

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Franz

11-30-2001 16:54:01

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Re: Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean, 11-30-2001 04:13:37

Try it, you'll love it. I learned to di it from an old timer, on B Macks. I have a cold hearted Yanmar 240 that hates winter, that I welded a short nipple onto the line between the air cleaner and manifold. I stick the torch into the nipple fora couple minutes and spin her over. When it sucks the torch flame out, the propane flow makes it start like summer. GM had a propane injector setup on some trucks in the 60s that worked a lot better than ether.

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B.C.

11-30-2001 13:58:08

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Re: Re: Re: Using WD40 for starting Perkins Diesel engine in reply to Big Dean, 11-30-2001 04:13:37

Some of the guys my granddad worked with at the county highway department would take gasoline soaked rags and put them on the air inlets of various diesel engines to hear them snort. Dunno if they ever grenaded any of them. The governors on the engines wouldn't do much in that situation.

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