Used ether for the first time

Posted by Zachary Hoyt on December 12, 2012 at 15:49:39 from (184.12.77.82):

Yesterday I parked the 300 Farmall by the woodshed and left it for three hours while I stacked the wood in the wagon and did some other stuff. When I came back it wouldn't start, and again today it wouldn't quite, but it would fire occasionally. This afternoon I got the coolant heater hooked up to it, but with the wind blowing and it being outside the heater couldn't do a lot for it. I remembered that I had gotten a can of starting fluid in a box lot at an auction a while ago so I went and found that on the chemicals shelf in the shed and followed the directions on the can and the tractor started right up beautifully and I was able to drive it over to the shed and put it away. I know ether is very destructive to diesel engines and I am wondering how bad of a thing I did by using it on this gas engine. I don't intend to make a habit of it, but I was glad to get the tractor put away this time.
Zach

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