Re: Addicted to starting fluid?

Posted by jdemaris on April 27, 2004 at 05:18:58 from (209.23.28.112):

In Reply to: Addicted to starting fluid? posted by Rusty in NWF on April 26, 2004 at 19:17:50:

YES, IT IS TRUE in many cases. We had that experience with many machines at our Deere dealership including our own rentals and customer's machines. What usually happens is an engine is not starting well for some mechanical reason, that may or may not be a serious one. Then the user overloads it with ether to the point that the top piston rings shatter and ruin the ring-grooves in the pistons. After that, there's not a chance of starting the thing again without the ether. Suprisingly though, many of these engines that have no top rings left at all still run pretty good once they're hot. We had crawlers we rented with new engines in them that got ruined their first time out on rental. We got so we didn't rent them anymore in the dead of winter if they couldn't be plugged in. Someone would rent one, park it in the woods, try to start it the next morning at zero degrees or below, overload it with ether and bust it all up.
Moderate ether use is fine in direct injected engines - but the key word is MODERATE. In indirect injected engines with precombustion chambers and glow-plugs, it should not be used at all. It will not only crack the piston rings, it will often crack the precombustion chambers and/or the head also.
I just got done checking over a Ford truck with the I.H. 7.3 diesel and indirect injection. The block heater burned out this winter, so the guy plumbed an ether line from the driver's compartment into his air cleaner and used ether every cold winter morning to start the truck. Now, spring is here and the truck won't start at 60 degrees on it's own - even with new glow plugs, and the guy is wondering why?

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