cold start assist

[sirmrtow]

how or where do get refills for your either tank

 

[kipman]

I got mine from John Tennis, aka jatonka, or you can find them at a heavy equipment shop, but try to buy from John, cheap and supports the cause.

 

[BKubu]

The best thing to do...and the cheapest...is to buy a can of STARTING FLUID from your local NAPA or other auto parts store. Keep the can in the tool box or behind the seat back in the corner. Give the air intake a little sniff right before you crank it. Works every time for me...and cheap, too. Why keep depleting and replacing those cannisters when you can buy a can of starting fluid so cheaply?

 

[tie6044]

That's exactly what I started doing. Went to recover one last night (hauling on a trailer) and it was 7 degrees! If you sit in the passenger seat with the window down you can shoot starting fluid into the intake at the fender and still reach the starter button. Another person works best but it's pretty easy by yourself.

 

[kipman]

NEVER use ether before you crank, always use the ether while the motor is turning over, good way to lock the motor.

 

[sirmrtow]

thanks for all the help guys

 

[JDToumanian]

Why keep depleting and replacing those cannisters when you can buy a can of starting fluid so cheaply?

Unless you live where it's perpetually cold, those cannisters should last for years, as the ether system is only activated when the coolant and ambient temperatures are below certain levels - usually 45 degrees for the ambient, I can't remember what it is for the coolant.

The automatic ether start systems squirt only a tiny measured amount directly into the intake... not through the air cleaner and filter. All the cans of "starting fluid" I've seen contain "upper cylinder lube" so you are ruining your air filter by contaminating it with oil.

Many diesels have been destroyed with arbitrary squirting of ether.... people use way too much.

Jon

 

[Armada]

The cold start ether injection on my M35 never had to have the cylinder refilled or replaced. I have used the same tank for the last 4 winters and it wasn't full when I got it.

 

[kipman]

I agree, and I think the cylinders are pure ether, starting fluid is Low ether content, used to be better, me thinks lowered by gov rules to stop the huffing crowd.