Saving my Diesels batteries..

[6.2LTrailblazer84]

KiwiJohn, Diesel4me, thanks for the replies. Lots of great info. I didn't know you could check for a power leak like that on the fuse block. That's great. And that battery starter idea has my brain churning.. sounds cool.

Maybe we should just figure out how to put a manual crank on there! Would save us a lot of trouble!

 

[diesel4me]

Hand crank????

I dont think you'd like hand cranking a diesel !!--22.1 compression ratio!!--gauranteed broken arms,wrists and hands,or your money back!...even "push" starting a diesel isn't reccomemded--you can snap an axle when you pop the clutch!..

Maybe we need an air starter like a kenworth!--then all you need is a portable air tank!--and you could scare the pants off anyone walking by your truck when you start it!

 

[6.2LTrailblazer84]

Break an axle! Holy cow!

Maybe we could use a really really large lever? :P

I wonder how they started diesels in the old handcrank days? hmm.. Or did they just not have compression ratios that greta when they handcranked?

That air compressor deal sounds really cool.

Maybe we could ditch the battery system altogether and siwtch to a compressed air storage system to run everything...

 

[Kiwi John]

Break an axle! Holy cow!

I wonder how they started diesels in the old handcrank days? hmm.. Or did they just not have compression ratios that greta when they handcranked?

Big flywheels, over-fuel setting on injector pump, compression release lever... I mean really BIG flywheels.

Electric starter is nice and simple, reliable, rebuildable etc. just get the batteries thing sorted and you'll be fine.

 

[cybrfire]

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