"Ignoramus5053" wrote in message
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On 2011-01-18, Pete C. wrote:

Ignoramus5053 wrote:

On 2011-01-18, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:48:56 -0600, Ignoramus26212
wrote:

On 2011-01-18, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:50:02 -0600, Ignoramus26212
wrote:

Here it is. Starting and running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcrF--s7QBM


Nicely done!

What was the problem with the over reving?

It was not over revving. It simply accelerated VERY quickly and
loudly, with a lot of power released ni one moment, to spin the engine
up very fast.

i

Ill bet your heart was in your mouth until you figured that out huh?

That's not what happened.

When the generator started for real the first time, I thought that by
accident I bought a smoke generator, instead of electrical generator.

It was just spewing storm cloud sized stream of dark gray smoke. It
actually started off slow, coughed a lot, spewed smoke in enormous
amounts, then sped up and ran nicely and clearly.

I will try to record a video of its "cold start" if you like that sort
of stuff. It is kind of remarkable for how it smokes for the first 5
seconds when started cold.

i

Cold diesel engines without emissions controls do spew a lot of
vaporized diesel "smoke". Does the engine have glow plugs to assist
starting?

It does not have glow plugs. Instead, it has a special cold start
assist, an ether delivery system that shoots a measured amount of
ether into the intake manifold.

I bought what seems to be a wrong ether bottle, so the cold start
assist does not work, but I will try to find the right bottle.

i

http://www.phillipsandtemro.com/User...atalog_WEB.pdf
around page 84 -85 lists starting fluid cans for different systems. All of
our Detroits used the Zero-Start brand system.