> You used too much.
I agree completely. a shot of ether for the count of ONE or TWO is more than plenty to start a 14 liter diesel engine. along the same notes: if you intend to use a starting aid make sure that you use the proper stuff. Until a few years ago WD40 was using propane as a propellant to fix their CFC's content requirements. This propane content worked well to replace ether as a starting aid. You had to make sure you werent plugging the paper air filter with the oil content, but it worked to get things started. However WD40 has changed their recipe and this will not work anymore. I also remember over-enthusiastic people bringing in their lawn tractors with large holes blown thru their hoods after unloading a half can of ether into the air cleaner and trying to start the small engine. One time the cylinder head on a single piston 16 HP Briggs and Stratton gasoline engine separated with enough force to break 8 bolts and then blow the head through the tin hood on the tractor and then the plaster board ceiling in the gargage it was located in. The underlying reason the motor was hard to start was that he had run the fuel tank dry the last time he used the equipment. --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You used too much. > I worked on a farm and we had to use ether all the time to get things > running and I never broke anything. One time I sprayed too much in an > engine and it revved really [way too] fast, but it didn't break > anything. But these were large 500 ci IH in milk trucks, and smaller > straight 6 tractors. > So I guess if you don't need it, don't use it of course. > > harley3 wrote: > > >Never use "starting fluid" in a diesel engine. I tried starting fluid once > >in my 6.5 diesel G.M. Suburban. The engine spit the starter out onto the > >ground. My foolish mistake broke the starter, and torn out 5 teeth off my > >torque converter. A very expensive mistake, never again. > > > >Harley > > > > > > > -- > --- > Martin Klingensmith > http://nnytech.net/ > http://infoarchive.net/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
