Easy start

[Frenchfarmer]

Or, as it is known over here,Start Pilote.
Had to use it this morning as it was -22°C but she fired up no probs once it had got round the intercooler and all that.
Only thing working here is the Fronty and the Yamaha Big Bear Quad bike.
Tonight is forecast to be even colder so all the sheep,horses,alpacas,pigs and piglets are in the barn getting to know each other.
The Fronty fired up fine till it got below -18°C the transit's starter cog is frozen on the spindle but luckily we don't need it at the moment.
Tomorrow I'll be using the Fronty to tow start one of the tractors so we can get a bale of hay to the outdoor flock.
If that doesn't work it will be a rope round the bale and sledge it out with the Fronty.
I paid over the odds for her, and then had the DMF problem, but now I'm glad I bought her.
We'd be ffffffd without her.

My toes is cold
My nose is skintit
Winter's diabolic
In't it.

[john (smifffy)]

motors get addicted to easy start so use it sparingly if at all

[Drift]

We used to have to start all the stackers and fiat allis's with that, they wouldnt have it any other way, the MOD had it ordered by the pallet load

[Bearcat]

Didn't need it, Had to collect her indoors from the Railway station Monday 4am, --20*C with 5cm of snow, Fronty fired up first swing, and it's steep greenlane country for miles round here, only problem no heater !!!! frozen fingers!!!!

[Frenchfarmer]

It is not the motors that get addicted; it is the owners who carry on using it rather than finding out what the problem is.
By the way I don't have indoors for the vehicles as the sheep, horses and alpacas are taking up all the space.

[gregster]

One of my old diesels had a special hole drilled in the airbox so the end of the easystart can would fit straight in without any dismantling, and a bicycle bottle holder bolted to the front panel inside the engine bay to hold the easy start aerosol can.
proper redneck!
(dont know who added these mods...must have been a previous owner... )

[Frenchfarmer]

The old Merc 608 LWBs had a thing like that as an option for cold climates.
BYTW.. how come old Transits don't have heater plugs but still start when it is Baltic?

[Drift]

4jb1 Can start below zero with no heater plugs, many a LR conversion have them but dont bother wiring the plugs up

The old Army bedfords had a little thingy on the dash that you popped a file of methanol in and it injected it into the cylinders to aid starting in chilly chilly weather

[john (smifffy)]

i can remember going with me dad in truck when i was about 7 and having to light small fire under engine to warm it up

[gregster]

Are you sure it wasnt one of these Smiffy, you old git???

[Mr Mud]

Put a fire under that and the b****y lot will go up with a load of booze on board

[john (smifffy)]

oi greg
not that one but have had a go in this one in there brewery in hertford




the reason to light small fire under truck was to warm the air for airtake and to make sure derv was not waxing

[Mr Mud]

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What a lovely old truck smiffy, and what a lucky devil you are having a ride in it, I'd love to get behind the wheel of that

[Rich]

i have memories of starting old diesel with a burning rag held near to the air intake while someone cranks the engine or if it was at hand using a blow lamp to do the same

[john (smifffy)]

rich

i can remember me dad taking a couple of the old roadwork paraffin lamps before the flashing battery amber ones
an hooking them under the motor to try an keep the engine area warm on a real frosty night

[Drift]

Smiffy we used to pinch them as kids
We where fascinated with them, free fire

The when the battery ones came out...free batteries

Not very safe and very wrong but we didnt mug old people in them days

[gregster]

We used to nick the big 12v battery's out of site genny's and stuff in roadworks when I was a youngster....

...but its wasnt all bad as we used to give them back...

...when we returned the next night and swapped em over for the BRAND NEW ONES that they had been replaced with...