Dave: I suggested towing for a number of reasons. Of all the diesel I owned I always found the 282 most troublesome to bleed and get started after the fuel system had been apart or drained. Couple that with the fact these tractors don't have the best starting system. Starter itself is no more than heavy enough. Then one has the added drain created by glow plugs. The whole system is fine for everyday starting when tractor is well tuned, and as long as one maintains 800 to 1000 cca batteries.
The problem with glow plug diesels is the extra cranking required to bleed the system, plus the extra glow plug time keeping it warm enough to start. We always want it started, as it is much easier to fine tune a warm engine after you've seen how it works. My main reasons for towing these tractors is to save and extend life of starter, glow plugs and batteries.
Will you kindly get those glow plugs fixed and operational. Continued use of ether is very hard on the engine. Ether should only be used on non glow plug diesels and then only in an emergency start. With working glow plugs and circulating block heater a 282 diesel will start at -40F anytime, with proper oil, either 20W or 15W-40. I used block heaters on all my tractors, not only to get them started, my prime reason was warming the engine to reduce wear. I started pluging them in at +40F.
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