A buddy of mine has a AC diesel tractor (big siz cylinder) with DI. It has an intake pre-heater he refuses to use (he also didn't have all four batteries hooked up last time I saw it) and complains about how hard it is to start. Uses ether, and it's useless in the winter.
Hot air in the intake works better than ether -- ether will pre-ignite in a high compression engine and slow it way down driving the starter motor backwards. Only good for low compression (16:1) DI engines. Peter -----Original Message----- >From: Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> >Sent: Feb 1, 2011 7:57 AM >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] 300td injector rebuild > >Curt Raymond wrote: >> A friend has a front end loader from the '70s that has a place to put a can >> of starting fluid, in the dash is a "staring fluid" lever, you yank the >> lever, it pushes the top of the can (or pushes the can up, I forget) and >> shoots starting fluid into the intake... > >I'm pretty sure my Dad's Allis-Chalmers 200 had that. >He replaced it with a Belarus that had a kerosene fueled flamethrower in the >intake manifold. That was where I got the idea to put a heat gun in the intake >snorkel. > >Mitch. > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
