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That's how I look at it. I'd rather rebuild a starter than rebuild an engine.Spinning the starter doesn't damage anything but the starter.
That's how I look at it. I'd rather rebuild a starter than rebuild an engine.Spinning the starter doesn't damage anything but the starter.
Machine / truck setting out in the cold with no electricity near buy gets one chance to fire while cranking it over with whatever life the batteries have left in them .........
Ether / starting fluid gives a slow cranking diesel an edge to light up in cold weather .
Do ya want this rig to start or not ?
Starting fluid has a learning curve ......
Kind of like a monkey pissing off of a cliff ......
A little bit go's a long way
Some of this ether dogma boggles my mind. It's a tool in the right application used with care. Engines do not get "addicted to it" unless an idiot breaks piston rings using too much. Seen that on many old Detroits.
I agree. The people who think it gets addicted probably think of an engine as a living breathing being and probably have never taken one apart and put it back together (very successfully anyway).
I don't know if it has been mentioned in these 5 pages but I remember plenty of trucks and equipment that had an ether can loaded with a button you could push in the cab. If the manufacturers put it there, it can't be all bad.
Back in the late 70's early 80's, people (including myself) used ether like it was going out of style, oblivious to the damage it caused. I think this was because the effects of ether were not well known and the manufacturers didn't know either. The fact that they all stopped providing ether injection systems should tell us something.I don't know if it has been mentioned in these 5 pages but I remember plenty of trucks and equipment that had an ether can loaded with a button you could push in the cab. If the manufacturers put it there, it can't be all bad.
Is that on the Allis Chalmers DMiller ?
Our 175 diesel has that feature .
Chained up the 170 Allis this afternoon expecting ice & snow ..... No worries about starting fluid as he has the 226 cube gas engine . Pull the choke & fire him up
Old gas burner tractors still have there place as they will fire off fast in cold weather .