Rosalie B. wrote in
:

You said that there was a big difference, but didn't explicitly say
which one was worse or in what way.


Slow turning large diesels tolerate ether much better than light-duty,
fast turning diesels. Fast diesels are much more prone to the ether
going off BEFORE TDC, which may cause piston or rod or crank failures.
This cannot happen if you stop pouring FUEL down its air intake into the
cylinders. There's PLENTY of heat to make fuel dumped down its air
intake EXPLODE before TDC in any diesel, which is exactly why the
instruction book forbids it....destroying the engine, either
catastrophically by breaking something, or weakening it by causing undue
stress on moving piston parts that fail prematurely later on. Repeated
use of ether to crank it repeats the weakening until something lets
go....usually through the side of the block...(c;

Not good....don't do it. HEAT THE AIR....FIX THE LOW COMPRESSION!

Larry
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