Tuesday, Mar 13, 2018 at 21:41
I can remember a Geologist telling me how he was prospecting with his (2WD) F100 (V8), in W.A., in the early 1970's - and parked it on a flat plain, while he camped, and did his geo work for a week.
Unbeknowns to him, he had left the radio on very low, and when he broke
camp and went to start the F100, the battery was dead as a dodo!
He was alone - he reckoned no-one would come looking for him for 3 or 4 weeks - and he'd probably be out of tucker and water by then!
He started thinking about all the stunts he could pull to try and start the Effie.
He reckoned, "don't ever try and tell me you can start a vehicle engine by jacking up the back wheel, and spinning it in top gear! It doesn't work!! Certainly not when you're on your own!!"
He tried everything he could think of, and nothing worked.
But eventually, he did get it going - and do you know how?
He removed all the belts from the motor, took out all the spark plugs - except two - and then wrapped a rope around the crankshaft pulley, and rope-started it, on two cylinders!! LOL
He reckoned it took him 3 days of near-constant effort before he finally got it to fire.
He even warmed the spark plugs on the edge of a fire, to assist in starting!
He said then, "the interesting part was trying to refit the fanbelt to get the water pump circulating coolant, and getting the alternator charging - and then, trying to refit all the missing spark plugs, while the engine was sputtering along on two cylinders!"
He reckoned once he had it running, he wasn't game to stop it for several hours! LOL
Cheers, Ron.
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