Thread: Is this possible?

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

if its dead flat you may not have enough go to energise the fuel pump or the fuel relay.

If it's that flat, with an alternator you are wasting your time, as you need electrickery to energise the diodes. Older cars with generators might give you enough. Course, a nine volt battery out of the old Dolphin torches, or even the little smoke detector ones would probably overcome that, and the fuel relay. Dunno about the pump.

Originally Posted by Tins

If it's that flat, with an alternator you are wasting your time, as you need electrickery to energise the diodes. Older cars with generators might give you enough. Course, a nine volt battery out of the old Dolphin torches, or even the little smoke detector ones would probably overcome that, and the fuel relay. Dunno about the pump.

Its not the diodes you're engergising its the rotor winding, Smart cookies take theirs apart and after working out the polarity of ones of the ends drill out and insert a rare earth magnet.

the dolphin 6v battery will start a series... much to the toyota driving muppet flechers who thought it would be funny to break into my car, turn on all the iso switches and my headlights then laugh at me asking before I got to my car how i was going to start it at end ex...


oddly, being the only one with jumper cables after loading my gear, tickling the pump, wiring the battery, cranking it...


sorry guys, no way I can start a mighty toyota with only a 35 a alternator...

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

Its not the diodes you're engergising its the rotor winding,

My theory days are over 40 years ago Dave.

In my army transport platoon days we were taught that if you can't get up a hill in 1st gear - try reverse.

Originally Posted by Barraman

In my army transport platoon days we were taught that if you can't get up a hill in 1st gear - try reverse.

I heard or read somewhere that the early cars, pro'ly even up to WW II vintage could struggle to get up hills in 1st, so people would reverse them up.

Hand cranked plenty of Ford flathead V8 engines on 6 volt systems with flat batteries. Never saw it as that difficult. Maybe as the engines were well worn it might have made a difference

Flat head Ford was low compression compared to any Rover V8, and arguably lower resistance from 'extras' such as power steering, aircon compressor etc, not to mention overhead valve gear.

The question that has not yet been answered is whether turning the engine over with the crank handle stops the wheels burying into the sand.

I must have seen that movie soon after it was released. It was released in 1958 and I was young enough to accept without question that cranking would get them up the sand dune.