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Default Detroit 353 diesel -- aluminum block? How to tell?

Tim wrote:
you would put these "ether" pellets in the
tube and they would drop down onto the blowers vanes, and when
cranking the vanes would crush the pellets and sent the particles
spraying into the cylinders.


LoL! Luv it! :-D
.... and I thought I was dealing with ancient technology when I had a
sailboat with a little 4 cylinder Perkins with a heater that was
supposed to warm up somethin' er other for cold weather starting.
Fortunately, I live so far south I never had to use it.

Rick