Runaway diesel

[Alan Gomes]

It wasn't my recommendation.

Right. I knew that. I just wasn't sure what you thought of it based on your reply.
I agree that the Yanmar crank designed for that purpose *ought* to work just fine. It still makes me nervous, though. But the point is moot for me since I can't make the engine start with it anyway!

 

[dLj]

Right. I knew that. I just wasn't sure what you thought of it based on your reply.
I agree that the Yanmar crank designed for that purpose *ought* to work just fine. It still makes me nervous, though. But the point is moot for me since I can't make the engine start with it anyway!

My thoughts - pretty close to deadly.... As in, it could kill you.

Candidate for the Darwin awards.

dj

 

[dLj]

I agree that the Yanmar crank designed for that purpose *ought* to work just fine. It still makes me nervous, though.

Actually, it should make you nervous. Hand cranking an engine requires knowledge of technique - body position, the way you hold the crank, and how you spin the crank.

I forget about these things because I was taught how to hand crank engines from a very young age by my grandfather. OK, so I'm old, you can imagine my grandfather was a lot older, and lived through the dawn of the combustion engine. Of course the early engines were pretty finicky...

I think an option might be to get a second hand crank, modify it so you could run that modified hand crank with a drill. That way you still have to proper connection to the engine.

Also, thank you for bringing this up. It's a really important point...

dj

 

[LloydB]

I didn't know that the new diesel engines are actually four cycle not two cycle as the earlier small diesels were. Thanks for the discussion.

 

[Alan Gomes]

I didn't know that the new diesel engines are actually four cycle not two cycle as the earlier small diesels were. Thanks for the discussion.

My 1980's-vintage 1-cylinder, 6.5 hp 1GM is most definitely a 4-cycle engine.