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Re: Ether on a diesel engine


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Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 16, 2007 at 14:43:17 from (209.226.247.133):

In Reply to: Re: Ether on a diesel engine posted by chuck46 on January 16, 2007 at 08:43:34:

Chuck: I'll give you a bit of history on some of my emergency start options. If it's diesel keep all leaks of any fluid sealed and tight. We had quite a large farm woodlot, and often times the tractors were miles from electricity. The old Farmall 300 was never a problem, that thing would tick them off at -30F every morning. The 560 diesel and Deere 540A forestry skidder were another kettle of fish. I usually brought the 560 home to electricity and it's tank heater. The Deere loved ether, much better system than IH. You tucked that ether can in your pocket all the way to bush, and one little squirt of warm ether through that Deere manifold nozzel at -35F and see was going. Warm ether is far more effective than cold, right on the pickup defroster was the place for it. Put it in your pocket, and step up to your Deere. I've fooled more than one guy into thinking the Deere started at -35F with no assist.

Now here is my real emergency starting kit and this is where the no leaks count. Cast iron fry pan, fill it with barbeque charcoal, and place it about 3" under the oil pan. I've started the 560 and Deere both that way should the ocasion make it necessary. It's best to block off the wind side under the vehicle. I started my 6.2 diesel that way one morning. I discovered my block heater had a broken wire, thus hadn't worked overnight.

We had a logging contractor in our area, faced with 5 diesels every morning to get going. He geared up quick couplers on the heater hoses of his pickup. He could circulate that through diesels in the bush. Two problems with that one, you froze in the pickup while waiting, plus the 5 blasts of cold coolant on the pickup each morning proved to be quite hard on pickup engines. In the end he bought a small diesel generator, pulled all the machines in a huddle, chained and locked generator to one of the machines, and generated power for the tank heaters.


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