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Re: Ether on a diesel engine
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 16, 2007 at 03:05:28 from (216.208.58.192):
In Reply to: Ether on a diesel engine posted by dave2 on January 16, 2007 at 00:00:09:
dave: I never liked ether unless one had a nozzel system piped right into the manifold. That gives much better control on how much you use. There are dangers involved using it in conjunction with glow plugs. Some folks say that can cause explosions, although I've never had it happen. I think they must have using way too much ether. I had 5 diesels on my farm and ironically the one that saw the most ether lifetime was a Deere that went 13,000 hours to it's first engine rebuild. None of the others got much over 10,000 hours to that first rebuild. I had circulating block heaters on 3 of my diesels, frost plug version on my 1066 and nothing on my combine. I used block heaters always if tractors were near electricity. The frost plug type heaters must almost be plugged in continuously as they are quite slow. A 1,500 watt circulating heater will at -20F start a diesel after being plugged in for only a couple of hours, and it will be much like a summertime start. The circulating heaters will actually make the engine block feel warm, and a warm start is much less engine wear. Unless your diesel is miles from electricity, I'd go block heater, and if your not using it everyday, I'd make that a circulating block heater. By the way, when new, most diesels with glow plugs had a warning not to use ether and glow plugs at same time. You can use glow plugs and block heater at same time. I never considered my block heaters a starting aid, but rather an engine warmer. It's long been said,"75% of engine wear occurs in the first 5 min a cold engine is running".
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