Equipment diesels are a different world in some respects from our automotive familiarities. They have different injection systems that make vehicles quieter for the road, and starting systems vary greatly.

My late 70's JD400 with a Perkins 4 cyl engine has no glows or heaters. It does have some sort of screw on dash fitting that goes to a line that went directly to the intake manifold, which has long been disconnected, I can only assume it was probably a propane injection setup of sorts. She fires right off and runs great, unless its snowy or cold enough to snow, then you have to wait until the sun's been on the block for an hour or two.

When the rock hauler's were out here buying rock, I was able to borrow his International dozer, it used to have glows, long dead, he was cheap. He used ether on it regularly, and it had become the only way to start it. Of course, it was well beyond worn out and back....I almost blew it up once, sprayed a bit too much in it when I had forgotten to engage the kill knob, once it fired up.....I thought there was going to be schrapnel flying....needless to say it was the last time I used his dozer, can't afford to replace that.....

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Chris
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