No injector adjustment???

[Waterloo]

(11-13-2019 )DVT873 Wrote:  Besides block and pan heater grandpa had a heating pad on his batteries. He said warm batteries helped a lot. 4 sixes in those days. Wired up series parallel. If he had to stay at the wood lot overnight he would bring the batteries in and put them by the fireplace. Hut had no electricity. Had a metal pan he put coals from the fireplace in and put it under the oil pan about an hour or two before staring in the morning. Pull the air filter out, crumple up a bunch of newspaper in the housing and light it. With warm batts, warm oil and warm air his 6-71 usually lit right off. And a bit of gasoline was the antigel treatment of choice for him. Didn't like ether. BTW anybody here remember ether balls? Like paint balls but filled with ether. Went in a thing that looked sort of like an oiler. Had a big sharp needle inside and a spring loaded cap. Put the ball in, let the cap snap shut. Pierced the ball and let the ether run into the intake. Cummins had a compression release option that was slick. Had a rod that ran the length of the block. Intake or exhaust, don't remember which had flanges on them. Haul back on a lever and the valves were held open. Get the engine spinning, release the lever and she would usually fire.

We have it pretty good nowadays... I remember the coal from when I was a kid... It worked.