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Originally Posted by james f. coon
.................................. We used ether mist over the intake manifold opening and kept doing that a little at a time until the engine smoothed out (instructions from the archives).
Thanks again,..........................
JFC
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No...No, and Heck no !!! NEVER use ''ether/easy start, et al '' to aid starting a diesel with pre-combustion chambers.
Or a diesel with induction air heating grid. ( Cummins 5.9.)
Why ? Because the ether 'explodes' instantly at it's ignition temperature,
which is well before TDC or the injection time of the diesel injector ....
What ether will do is break things..........
..including the upper circumference of the cylinder liners.
Also at risk are the pre-chamber and the diffusor balls.
To say nothing of the hammering the piston rings and
crank bearings are taking.
I've seen it snap timing chains !!!!
If you have been doing this with seemingly no damage...
let me assure you, your engine
did suffer damage and
will show up many miles from now and it will seem unrelated.
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