Dangers of aerostart

Yep but go carefully

Years ago when we lived in England , our old Puegeot 504 Diesel Wagon got harder and harder to start:(

I employed the good lady wife in assisting me to get it going with me inside cranking via the key and she squirting in the Aerostart:angel:

I'm pretty sure I said " Stop squirting when I stop turning the engine over " :eek:

But then again maybe I didn't :o

Anywhoo after 60 seconds of me turning the engine over intermittently and the unheard message of stop squirting resulting in 60 seconds of Aerostart in the intake , the old Bus made a bit of a bang.

I was told to put the Aerostart where I knew it wouldn't possibly fit and she refused to help anymore:confused:

We wrote it off as dead but a week later a local brickie knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to sell it for 350 pounds ( I ony paid 650 and we drove it into the ground over 12 months) I let him know it wouldn't start and he was fine with that. He turned up with the brickies forklift from across the road and they tow started it just fine.

One of my sons works for Cummins and "Start you Barstard" is a part of their tool box & general issue kit.
I'm not being rude here that is what the stuff is called.

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Originally Posted by miles

One of my sons works for Cummins and "Start you Barstard" is a part of their tool box & general issue kit.
I'm not being rude here that is what the stuff is called.

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Some current large construction machinery have ether systems installed for cold starting.
No doubt it's an automated system with a controlled dose.

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Originally Posted by Dougal

Some current large construction machinery have ether systems installed for cold starting.
No doubt it's an automated system with a controlled dose.

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Cummins NHC & NTC & NTA truck, fire appliance, and crane carrier engines came equipped as standard with an ether cold start system operated from the driving position by Bowden cable. I don't recall it the KT engines came this way and have had nothing to do with later series. You sure would not get an NTA to start on a Melbourne winter morning without a good sniff.

We used to use the pressure pack brake cleaner made by Wurth for a similar purpose. If we had done an injector pump or a fuel line on a backhoe and it would'n start up, we'd crank it while someone sprayed it in through the intake, the engine would start and run while the can lasted which was normally enough to get the injector pump primed. Probably not the best to do it too often.