alskdjfhg
Senior Member
Since the throttle linkage is pretty screwed up (someone before me really did a number to it), and I'm too lazy to fix it as close to right as possible.
I just lock the throttle in position at the engine with a pair of vice-grips, so the upper (a 4-53) runs pretty close to wide open all the time.
Heard (again on this fourm) that Detroit's don't like to be idled and would really prefer to be loaded constantly. I also agree with kshansen that a Detroit in a crane isn't the best, kinda counter intuitive by that logic.
But had the crane had another engine in it, they might have been able to start it at the auction lot (blower cut off was engaged), and it may have sold for more money. Who knows.
Once I got that cut off opened (had to be told again from this forum that it was there to begin with) the engine started in less than a second.
I just lock the throttle in position at the engine with a pair of vice-grips, so the upper (a 4-53) runs pretty close to wide open all the time.
Heard (again on this fourm) that Detroit's don't like to be idled and would really prefer to be loaded constantly. I also agree with kshansen that a Detroit in a crane isn't the best, kinda counter intuitive by that logic.
But had the crane had another engine in it, they might have been able to start it at the auction lot (blower cut off was engaged), and it may have sold for more money. Who knows.
Once I got that cut off opened (had to be told again from this forum that it was there to begin with) the engine started in less than a second.
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