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Steve Daniels, Seek of Spam
 
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Default The Andrea Gail had a gasoline engine

On 10 Jul 2004 16:48:02 GMT, something compelled
(Shen44), to say:

BTW, I seem to remember an old CAT tractor whose engine started as a gasoline
engine, and when warmed up, converted to diesel....could be wrong.


There are some old tractors that use a gasoline engine as a
starter motor. You'd start the gasoline engine and then couple
its output through a clutch to turn the diesel engine, getting it
to start. I guess that was because they didn't carry enough
electrical power to use an electric motor to turn the diesel, or
maybe they did it that way because it's Just Cool.