LOL oh gee I cant get off the floor.. man that was funny.. I see that sort of thing every so often.. In fact I bought a '84 audi quatro for 400 bucks from my brother because he said it was junk... LOL I put gas in it replaced the fuse for the computer and it ran just fine.. My wife still loves to drive that car.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: [biofuel] Re: cold weather starting - No starting fluid! > > > 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/ > > > > 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/
