John: Here in the north country, many times I started my John Deere miles from any electricity. Yes, it had a block heater but you cant plug it into a spruce tree. That old Deere drank a good many cans of ether, but you know something, it went 13,000 hours to it's first engine rebuild. That is 3,000 hours more than I ever got from any other diesel and none of the other 6 ever saw so much as squirt of ether, very rarely were they ever started in winter. I will grant you Deere had the best system for ether, it's own spray nozzel in the manifold, plus the can didn't stay on the tractor. One took it to bed with him at night, carried it in his undershirt until he got to the tractor. Warm ether is very much more effective than cold ether. It used so little I've seen two cans last all winter, probably 100 starts anywhere from 20F to -35F.
Ether properly metered and it shouldn't go through the air filter. Direct spray into the manifold only way to go, but it takes a Deere spray, all other manifold spray systems I've seen are much like a garden hose nozzel. One of many items Deere had right.
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