Awesome! How long did you run the heat gun before trying to start the engine?
------------- Max Charleston SC On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The snowmobile club gets paid to groom by the state, that's essentially > our whole business. We get that money once a week only, miss a week and the > money is gone. The ASV is our smallest big groomer, it's 6 feet wide, and > is notoriously hard to start. I've pondered the issue for two years with no > chance to try any of my ideas.Well today the new ASV driver decided it's > too cold, he doesn't want to kill his new batteries failing to start it. I > had the day off and one of the other operators asked me to go check it out. > Step one was to make sure the block heater works, my ir thermometer proved > that. Step two was to install batteries, dual grp 49s. I spent as much time > cleaning terminals as I did installing batteries.Step three was to try it > and here's where Mr Cathey came in. I stuck my Harbor Freight heat gun in > the air intake and cranked. After a few seconds it fired up. I don't know > how to work the glow plugs work so I think this was mostly without them, > guess I better learn... ;) > Anyway, thanks to Jim for figuring out the heat gun trick and making me > look smarter than I am! > > _______________________________________ http://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
