Re: Why gas to start the diesel engine?

Posted by Andy Martin on December 22, 2004 at 06:19:31 from (64.219.39.195):

In Reply to: Re: Why gas to start the diesel engine? posted by Redrider on December 21, 2004 at 20:05:00:

One of my worst errors operating equipment was shutting my TD-18 down too quickly when we had a family emergency one day and busting one of the the heads. Did not know the head was busted until I cranked it and broke the top out of No. 1 piston.

Wished I'd just left it idling and run out of fuel.

Of course I busted the head on a 4-53 in a motor grader by letting it idle while trying to get a neighbor unstuck. So you just have to know what you are doing. The Detroit was a lot cheaper fix.

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