Tirebiter--Hello again. I never destroyed any
precombustion chambers in my 300td. In fact it's very well, thank you.
I hope you didn't take any offense but ether should be used NOT by the weak of mind or will!!
Most of my mechanical education was military in Korea, in constution or on the farm. In Korea, winter starting those Cummins NTC's with a crummy preglow in the intake manifold was pure torture. We disconnected the pre glows, hit em with ether and they popped off at about -15 below. We used 10W oil cut 20% with diesel fuel in the crankcase. (Something John Deere, IH and Case recommended with circa 40's-50's farm tractors when the oil "W" designator was non existent and the tractor had to be used in the winter.) Back to the Cummins in Korea, you only got 2 chances though, and then if that didn't work, we would have to use a 5 ton wrecker that was NEVER shut down to pull start the diesels. So it goes...