From: Edward Morgan (morgan54801@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 11:33:10 PST
Up here in North West Wisconsin where it's below 32
degrees for 260 days in a year, we use the Flame
Heater, and it works, it smooths the engine out so it
will idle.
Some of the trucks that I have had, had an ether
injection bottle on the firewall, but I have never use
one.
Ed Morgan
--- ddoyle9570@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/19/2002 12:38:08 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, opm@sympatico.ca writes:
>
> > I thought m35a2 with ldt motors had glow plugs
>
> Nope, what they (and a few other engines) have is a
> system that is so ingeniously simple one must wonder
> why it is not in widespread use.
>
> Following is the cold weather starting procedure and
> how it works.
>
> Engage the starter, on the lower left corner of the
> dashboard is a spring loaded toggle switch,
> surrounded by a data plate describing the cold
> weather starting procedure....
>
> Operation of this lever causes fuel to be sprayed
> into the intake manifold, where it is ignited by a
> spark plug. Now the engine is sucking burning fuel
> into the cylinders, which both warms the air, and I
> suppose could light off the fuel that is being
> injected normally through the fuel injection
> nozzles.
>
> Operate the flame heater intermittently until the
> engine is running smoothly.
>
> Walla...the engine starts. Granted, where I live
> (Tennessee) is unlikely to get as cold as it does
> where you live, but....
>
> Over several winters I have only had to use the
> flame heater one day (same day I could turn the
> steering lock to lock with one finger, while
> stationary!)....all other times, the LDT fires off
> normally, although it turns over slower in the teens
> than in the 80's.
>
> I have only used either on one LDT, and that was one
> that had a bad injection pump, wanted to make sure
> the engine would run before doing all the work to
> change the pump. It did, and with a new pump is
> still running, so I guess the ether didn't damage
> too much.
>
> Hope this helps,
> David Doyle
>
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