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Posted by buickanddeere on March 04, 2006 at 15:46:02 from (216.183.138.49):
In Reply to: Re: Diesel blue smoke posted by Bernie's Son-In-Law on March 04, 2006 at 14:35:55:
Odds are the use of ether has blown the head gasket or cracked the head or block casting. I've never seen a felt plug that gets soaked with ether? Around here we use an engine coolant heater and often a battery blanket heater. The engine starts easily like it was summer. Less engine wear & better fuel efficiency too. No worries about ether also bending rods, crushing bearings, breaking piston ring lands, pinched rings or broken rings. And the ether will also strip lube oil off the cylinder walls. Once an engine is ether damaged it becomes a poorer & poorer starting engine.
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