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• Is this a Crazy Idea?
  • Theoretically,
  • Those 18v'ers sure have a lot of torque. Try it and let us know..
    • starters
  • I tried this
  • You can also get one of those 90 deg. angle heads
  • Why can't you
  • Spring-driven
    • And the starter motor has a large gear reduction, torque is also important
      • Ron, here's what you need to do: the mainsail starter
        • thought it was ingenious when I first heard of it...
          • Yves Parlier's story of fixing his carbon mast in the Vendee Globe in 2000 was as an amazing story, too...
            • And to think just yesterday I had seaweed soup...
  • Never tried it, but the idea of crank-starting anything more than a one cylinder diesel has always scared me...
    • hand crank
      • Thanks, Rich - figured there had to be some ratcheting device or similar for a bigger engine...
        • 12hp would break an arm easily
        • In the past I have hand started my old IIA Land Rover
          • My dad's old
          • Cranking a diesel and Series Rovers
            • Unfortunately the original poster has a Volvo 2003 and it only allows all 3 compression releases to operated as one.
              • I think they say it has one for each cylinder.
                • All connected to a single lever.
            • unfortunately new diesels
        • Trip South?/
          • How is your engine repair going Jon?
    • Until Kettering's invention that was the most dangerous part of driving a car
  • Starters