![]() ![]() I do plan every day in the winter to have the engine already warm from plugging up the engine heater.(I use a timer) I have to feeding cows daily. I haven't used a shot of Ether in 20 years now and have no plans to do so. Turned out to be very expensive in the end. He didn't know how to bleed the system and started spraying Ether in the try and keep the engine running in hopes it would pick up the fuel. The guy that owned it let the engine run out of fuel. I also saw a Fiat enigine last summer with 3 of the 4 pistions cracked right across the top. I know because my Dad did that on a 135 MF. to get it started for the rest of the engine life. You can use Ether on a Perkins for one winter in daily starting and it'll get to the place you have to use it at 45 deg. Yes you all are correct on the Perkins engine. I've tried it and it works but on most engines you will need one person to turn the engine over while the other holds the cloth over the air intake. He said use a clean piece of cloth, spray the Ether on the cloth and hold it over the intake of the air filter while turning the engine. He told me that over the years he had learned a way to use Ether that didn't harm the engine. We were talking one day about the use of starting fluid(Ether) and diesel engines. I have an old friend that owned,operated and worked on dozers. Glow plugs should be all you need to get a properly maintained diesel going. What I'd do is to inject a small amount of gas into the carb with one of those turkey spice injectors and this would usually get that old engine started with a slow turning 6v starter. I've had some hard to start gasoline engines over yrs, with my 48 TE20 being the hardest to start once it got cold out. Their pressure tanks would bleed down over night and barely eave enough pressure to crank the engines so we'd want to get a start 1st time or we'd have to hand pump up the pressure again and again which was not good.Īnyways, with prolonged use of that ether those engines got to where they wouldn't start without it. Especially on the hydraulic start AC/DC generators and test stands. It was only supposed to be used in sub-zero temps but folks got to useing them for all 1st starts of the day. ![]() Some of the old GSE gear I used to work on back in the day, with Detroit diesels, had an ether injector system that used those small metal capsules just like you find on CO2 pellet guns. Over time this will wear the rings and cylinder wall down past optimum clearances, lessoning compression and causing excessive oil usage. It strips away the protective oil coating on the piston and cylinder walls. ![]()
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