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Originally Posted by junqueyardjim
They did have a glow procedure Juan, but not with glow plugs. Glowing meant you fired up the gas pony engine and glowed that exhaust into the intake manifold. Then when they were running good, the pony that is, you pulled the choke back on it and pull in a batch of raw gasoline, another aid too starting those old beasts on a cold, cold morning.
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Who the hell told you that?!! All sorts of cat engines use glowplugs and the pony motor was used to rotate the crankshaft and thats it! I'm told by an old Cat mechanic I work with in really cold climates they used to pull the compression release and let the pony motor crank the engine over for a while before letting it start.